Extended through March 28!
THAT PRETTY PRETTY; OR, THE RAPE PLAY
a world premiere by SHEILA CALLAGHAN
directed by KIP FAGAN
"A raunchy, savvy . . . black comedy. The twisted, caffeinated world of the show imagines the collective unconscious of a culture where girls never stop going wild."
—Jason Zinoman, The New York Times
"Manic, angry, deftly constructed. . . . whipsaws between laughs and squirms."
—David Cote, Time Out New York (Critics' Pick)
"Funny, scary, messy, and forthrightly feminist."
—Alexis Soloski, The Village Voice
"A submersion in the anarchy of ambivalence: variously a rant, a riff, a rumble—about our notions of naturalism, objectification, perversity, and beauty. . . . There's sass and sarcasm in Callaghan's high-energy punk writing."
—John Lahr, The New Yorker
Performances Wednesday-Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m.
Special added performance Tuesday, March 24, at 8 p.m.
* No performance Thursday, March 19
Save 50% ($20 tickets) Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Sundays with code EXT20
Save 40% ($25 tickets) on all other dates with code EXT25
(Full Price Tickets $40)
Click here to purchase your tickets to That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play
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A pair of radical feminist ex-strippers scour the country on a murderous rampage against right-wing pro-lifers, blogging about their exploits in gruesome detail. Meanwhile, a scruffy screenwriter named Owen tries to bang out his magnum opus in a hotel room as his best friend Rodney ("The Rod") holds forth on rape and other manly enterprises. When Owen decides to incorporate the strippers into his screenplay, the boundaries of reality begin to blur, and only a visit from Jane Fonda can help keep worlds from blowing apart. Sheila Callaghan's That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play, directed by Kip Fagan, is a violently funny and disturbing excavation of the dirty corners of our imaginations.
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
224 Waverly Place
(1/2/3/A/C/E/F/V to 14th St)
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