The Gulf (play)
The Gulf is a play by American playwright Audrey Cefaly.[1] It is a recipient of the 2017 Lambda Literary Award for Drama and the 2016 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award. The play was adapted from a one-act version, which won the 40th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival (2015). The play takes place on a fishing boat in the author's home state of Alabama.[2]
Production highlights[edit]
London Premiere - April 2018 (Tristan Bates Theatre)[3]
Directed by Matthew Gould
Featuring Louisa Lytton and Anna Acton
Australian Premiere - August 2017 (Camperdown, NSW)[4]
Directed by Melissa Lethbridge
Featuring Diana Popovska and Brenna Harding
World Premiere - September 2016
Signature Theatre (Arlington, VA)
Directed by Joe Calarco.[5]
Synopsis[edit]
The divide between Kendra and Betty mimics the very world that devours them: a vast and polarizing abyss. On a quiet summer evening, somewhere down in the Alabama Delta, Kendra and Betty troll the flats looking for red fish. After Betty begins diagnosing Kendra’s dead-end life with career picks from What Color is Your Parachute, their routine fishing excursion takes a violent turn.[6]
Characters[edit]
- Kendra: A loner. Scrappy, dark, brutish and volatile.
- Betty: An optimist. A thinker. Restless and tender Hearted.
Awards[edit]
- Winner: 2017 Lambda Literary Award for Drama
- Nominated: 2017 Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play or Musical (Helen Hayes)[7]
- Recipient of the 2016 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award[8]
- Winner of the 2015 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival.[9]
Publications[edit]
- Full-Length (Samuel French)
- One-Act:
References[edit]
- ^ "audrey-cefaly-writer". Retrieved 2016-08-26.
- ^ "audrey-cefaly-writer". Retrieved 2016-08-26.
- ^ "European Premiere of Audrey Cefaly's Play The Gulf comes to Tristan Bates". British Theatre. 2018-04-02. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ Gray, Madeleine. "Puberty Blues' Brenna Harding To Shine in All-Female, Lesbian Play". Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ "The Gulf". Signature Theatre. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ^ "audrey-cefaly-writer". Retrieved 2016-08-26.
- ^ "Nominations for the 2017 Helen Hayes Awards". theatrewashington.org. Retrieved 2017-09-28.
- ^ "New Plays in Production". www.tcg.org. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
- ^ "Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 40th Series". Samuel French. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ^ "Love is a Blue Tick Hound | Samuel French". samuelfrench.com. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
- ^ "The Best American Short Plays 2014-2015 - Hal Leonard Performing Arts Publishing Group". www.halleonardbooks.com. Retrieved 2016-08-26.