Pussy Sludge (Modern Plays) - Softcover

Gardner, Gracie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350289000 ISBN 13: 9781350289000

Publisher: Methuen Drama, 2021

Synopsis

Pussy Sludge is a play about a woman with a broken pussy.

There's a woman menstruating crude oil. She lives in a swamp. She's in love with Courtney, but her mother prefers RJ.
No one knows who knows what's best.

Gracie Gardner's award-winning play sketches a dystopian setting with an eponymous main character who, in a number of absurd encounters, resists stereotypical gender constructions and socially predetermined life models. Far
more than just a feisty criticism of patriarchal systems, the play turns power structures upside down and offers a surreal and comic parable of sexual self-determination that challenges conservative gender constructs and our patriarchal status quo with vigor and irony.

Pussy Sludge is a tender exploration of questioning authority, suspending shame through intimacy, and very bad advice.

About this title

About the Author

Gracie Gardner is an American playwright. Her play Pussy Sludge was selected for Theatertreffen Stückemarkt in Berlin, and previously received the Relentless Award; it was developed by Less Than Rent at HERE Arts Center, and The Old Vic in London. Her play Athena (New York Times Critics' Pick) was presented by The Hearth at JACK. Gracie is the recipient of the McKnight National Residency and Commission, an Ensemble Studio Theater Sloan Foundation Commission, a Claire Tow Fellowship, the James E. Michael Award, the James Stevenson Prize, and she is a Samuel French OOB Festival winner. She's a proud member of New Dramatists, Ars Nova Play Group, Youngblood, and she has received commissions from Clubbed Thumb, Manhattan Theatre Club, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and the Atlantic Theater Company. She's also worked as a video game writer for Annapurna Interactive

Edition details

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350289000
• ISBN 13: 9781350289000
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 56