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Exit, Pursued by a Bear

  • Lauren Gunderson
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Contemporary
  • 2M, 2F
  • ISBN: PS2416

Nan has decided to teach her abusive husband Kyle a lesson. With the help of her friend Simon (acting as her emotional -- and actual -- cheerleader) and a stripper named Sweetheart, she tapes Kyle to a chair and forces him to watch as they reenact scenes from their painful past.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 80 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Nan has decided to teach her abusive husband Kyle a lesson. With the help of her friend Simon (acting as her emotional -- and actual -- cheerleader) and a stripper named Sweetheart, she tapes Kyle to a chair and forces him to watch as they reenact scenes from their painful past.

In the piece de resistance, they plan to cover the room in meat and honey so Kyle will be mauled by a bear. Through this night of emotional trials and ridiculous theatrics, Nan and Kyle are both freed from their past in this smart, dark revenge comedy.

This is the first play in the Shakespeare Cycle, a series of contemporary comedies based on Shakespeare's plays. See Toil and Trouble and The Taming for the other plays in this series.
REVIEWS:

"If the Coen Brothers decided to set a feminist revenge tale in Atlanta and sprinkle it with Dixie Chicks pixie dust, it might look something like Exit, Pursued by a Bear, a raucous comedy of friendship, domestic abuse, and performance-as-catharsis."

 ArtsCritic Atlanta

"Gunderson is one of the most creative and entertaining playwrights in America."

 Dallas Morning News

"Gunderson's script not only makes each character adorably quirky but engenders empathy for all four as well. This show contains enough offbeat and grisly -- no pun intended -- humor that the Bard's immortally funny line is a fitting title."

 The Week Magazine

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  • Casting: 2M, 2F

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Nan has decided to teach her abusive husband Kyle a lesson. With the help of her friend Simon (acting as her emotional -- and actual -- cheerleader) and a stripper named Sweetheart, she tapes Kyle to a chair and forces him to watch as they reenact scenes from their painful past.

In the piece de resistance, they plan to cover the room in meat and honey so Kyle will be mauled by a bear. Through this night of emotional trials and ridiculous theatrics, Nan and Kyle are both freed from their past in this smart, dark revenge comedy.

This is the first play in the Shakespeare Cycle, a series of contemporary comedies based on Shakespeare's plays. See Toil and Trouble and The Taming for the other plays in this series.

$24.95

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