Playwright Audrey Cefaly | ||
The Gulf is a play by American playwright Audrey Cefaly. It is a recipient of the 2016 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award. The world premiere is scheduled for September 2016 at Signature Theatre (Arlington, VA) and will be directed by Joe Calarco. 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.
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Synopsis
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.
Themes
love, betrayal, apathy, lgbt