Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo
I'm also going to give you some advice. Your husband is not the Red Cross. The last time he started consoling a cute, suicidal chick, he married her. Becky Shaw is an amusing and cleverly constructed comedy about ambition, the cost of being truthful, and the perils of a blind date. The fast and funny dialogue navigates between five distinctively perverse and disingenuously dysfunctional characters. The plot is as follows: from the moment that Becky arrives overdressed for her blind date with straight-talking Max, it's clear the evening won't go to plan. In the immediate fallout, Becky becomes an object of devotion for her boss Andrew, who appears to have a fetish for vulnerable women. In turn Andrew's wife Suzanna turns to her step-brother Max for comfort, and their mutual desire begins to resurface. Gina Gionfriddo's masterful play is a biting American comedy with sharp, witty dialogue and a carefully crafted yet unforced story arc. Character-driven, Becky Shaw is a comic tale of tangled love lives and a subtle but acerbic comedy of manners.
It remains sharp and funny to the end, and presents its characters with the irony and wit of a latter-day Jane Austen.. the dramatist lays bare these tangled relationships with great wit and insight, and the dialogue fairly fizzes along -- Charles Spencer * Telegraph *
Sharp and sassy American comedy ...it is dazzlingly written and studded with rapier-sharp lines -- Unknown * Financial Times *
Every line is a poisoned dart and every character is an assassination. It's tough on them but sublimely funny for us: Gionfriddo's play has the moral subtlety of Jane Austen but it yanks its characters' illusions down with the off-kilter ease that's usually the trademark of access-all-areas TV satirists like Larry David or Tina Fey. -- Caroline McGinn * Time Out *
Becky Shaw, another new play, is a ferociously funny comedy of outrageously bad manners by American Gina Gionfriddo. From the start, you're riveted. -- Georgina Brown * Mail on Sunday *
Sharp and sassy American comedy ...it is dazzlingly written and studded with rapier-sharp lines -- Unknown * Financial Times *
Every line is a poisoned dart and every character is an assassination. It's tough on them but sublimely funny for us: Gionfriddo's play has the moral subtlety of Jane Austen but it yanks its characters' illusions down with the off-kilter ease that's usually the trademark of access-all-areas TV satirists like Larry David or Tina Fey. -- Caroline McGinn * Time Out *
Becky Shaw, another new play, is a ferociously funny comedy of outrageously bad manners by American Gina Gionfriddo. From the start, you're riveted. -- Georgina Brown * Mail on Sunday *
Gina Gionfriddo is an American writer whose plays include After Ashley, U.S Drag, Squalor and America's Got Tragedy. She has won an Obie Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Helen Merrill Prize for Emerging Playwrights, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781408147016 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408147017 |
| Title | Becky Shaw |
| Author | Gina Gionfriddo |
| Series | Modern Plays |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2011-01-13 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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