Gain Lascivious Something/Roadkill Confidential/That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play: Three Plays Articulated By Sheila Callaghan Rendered As Print

Something is a whirlwind, There are a lot if emotional layers that all seem to loop back on each other, The "déjà vu"/ repeating scenes and dialogue are particularly interesting, The play has a very heady quality that sucks you down into its core and leaves you swimming, Bonus for the Greek language interspersed

throughout, It felt more interactive for me, with the language barrier, I went to Greece a few years ago and was able to retain some if the phrase book, which gave me an extra sense of pride while reading.


Roadkill Confidetial blurs the line between anguish and art, pain and creativity, It's a very visceral experience reading this play, One feels jolted by the unfolding scenes, Callaghan is a smart playwright she makes you question your own comfort level, Is it art or is it cruelty And who says it can't be both

Pretty Pretty is very hard to describe, It's another play that blurs reality with art and feminism with vigilantes, The lines of objectification are crossed, Can we objectify and control those who embrace it Is that really control then It's a hard play to read, both because of how interchangeable the characters and dialogue are and how graphic the contents can be.
It would be a hard live show to sit through, it's keep still when your surrounded by electricity, But it's definitely the type of show that will shake an audience to the core, which is sometimes just the catharsis needed to make it through your week.
Sheila Callaghan is one of the most distinctive playwrights working in the theater today, Fiercely political, unblinkingly experimental, yet emotionally true, her writing is a refreshing combination of the compelling and the controversial,

This volume collects three of her most recent plays to date, It includes: Lascivious Something, a heartrending and disturbing exploration of failed love and shattered idealism at the dawn of the Reagan era, it follows a lapsed activists attempt to start life anew on a vineyard in Greece and what happens when the woman he left behind tracks him down Roadkill Confidential, a noirish meditation on brutality and the intersection between fear and art, focused on an artist who uses the corpses of dead animals found on the side of the road as the medium for her creations and That Pretty Pretty Or, the Rape Play, which imagines our girls gone wild culture spiraling out to its most extreme ends while exploring issues of beauty, objectification, perversity, and naturalism in current society.
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