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Smudge

  • By Rachel Axler
  • Full Length Play, Dark Comedy, Present Day, New Millennium/21st Century, Contemporary
  • 2M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573698248

"For signs of intelligent life in the theatrical universe, I hereby refer you to Smudge, Rachel Axler's pitch-black comedy."

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dark Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, New Millennium/21st Century, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Strong Language, Intense Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Reader's Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
A dark comedy about the changing face of the American family and the limits of love and cheesecake, as a hopeful young couple gives birth to a smudge, written by two-time Emmy Award winner Rachel Axler. 
REVIEWS:

"Ms. Axler has a comic's gift for language that is precise and imaginative, but never showy... What gives the play its charge is how Ms. Axler taps into a primal fear -- giving birth to a monster -- and then calmly considers it from all angles."

 The New York Times

"For signs of intelligent life in the theatrical universe, I hereby refer you to Smudge, Rachel Axler's pitch-black comedy about a young couple reacting to the birth of a severly deformed child."

 Variety

"Rachel Axler, an acclaimed television comedy writer, is...spread[ing] her creative wings with Smudge. She takes a dark subject matter, immediately places her three characters in extremis, and asks us to watch what happens. There is a distinctly ambitious imagination at work here."

 Backstage

Premiere Production: Smudge premiered at The Women's Project in 2010 under the direction of Pam McKinnon.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 1F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)

COLBY - Late twenties. Female. Married to Nick.
NICHOLAS - Late twenties. Male. Married to Colby.
PETE - Mid-thirties. Male. Nick's older brother.

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A dark comedy about the changing face of the American family and the limits of love and cheesecake, as a hopeful young couple gives birth to a smudge, written by two-time Emmy Award winner Rachel Axler.

$24.95

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