Gina Gionfriddo Plays 1

<p><b>“Sick, ugly, and brilliantly funny... and wise. In Gionfriddo’s plays, as </b><b>in all great plays, no one is wrong, everyone is right.”<i> The Brooklyn Rail</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br><b>U.S. Dra </b>“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.” <i>Variety</i><br><br><b>After Ashley: </b>“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.” <i>The New York Sun</i><br><br><b>Becky Shaw: </b>“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.” <i>New York Times</i><br><br><b>Rapture, Blister, Burn: </b>“... 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.” <i>New York Times</i><br><br><b>Can You Forgive Her?: </b>“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’.” <i>WBUR - Boston’s NPR</i></p>