Gina Gionfriddo Plays 1 (Contemporary Dramatists)

“Sick, ugly, and brilliantly funny... and wise. In Gionfriddo’s plays, as in all great plays, no one is wrong, everyone is right.” The Brooklyn Rail The first play collection of celebrated American dramatist Gina Gionfriddo, winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Across five plays, her wit, pungent dialogue and sharp contemporary voice explores a wide range of themes about American life. U.S. Drag: “worthy of the Blackburn Prize conferred on scribe Gina Gionfriddo for her satirical look at a generation raised to expect the material world to fall into its lap, but hungry for more substantial values.” Variety After Ashley: “Deft characterizations, caustic humor, and well-deployed nips at the American slack moral conscience make After Ashley, Ms. Gionfriddo’s acidic puree of modern culture at The Vineyard, one of the necessary shows to see this year.” The New York Sun Becky Shaw: “a tangled tale of love, sex and ethics among a quartet of men and women in their 30s, ... as engrossing as it is ferociously funny, like a big box of fireworks fizzing and crackling across the stage from its first moments to its last.” New York Times Rapture, Blister, Burn: “... intensely smart, immensely funny... [Gionfriddo] illustrates how hard it can be to forge both a satisfying career and a fulfilling personal life in an era that seems to demand superhuman achievement from everyone.” New York Times Can You Forgive Her?: “Gionfriddo is onto something about her generation, brought up to expect the moon and then served a crescent version cratered with limited opportunity, sinkholes of debt and loads of chutes into what the play calls ‘the big blackness’.” WBUR - Boston’s NPR