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Wink (Silverman)

  • Jen Silverman
  • Full Length Play, Dark Comedy
  • 3M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573708220

A dark comedy about the thin, thin line between savagery and civilization.

  • Full Length Play
  • Dark Comedy
  • 75 minutes

  • Target Audience: Adult

  • Performance Group:
  • Professional Theatre
Wink follows unhappy housewife Sofie and her breadwinning husband, Gregor, who both seek weekly counseling from an unorthodox therapist, Doctor Frans. Their current topic of disagreement: the cat, Wink. 

When Wink goes missing, violent desires, domestic anarchy, and feline vengeance emerge, threatening the neatly ordered reality Sophie, Gregor, and Doctor Frans have constructed.

PLEASE NOTE: This show has a mandatory music fee of A$35.00 per performance.

REVIEWS:

"Silverman blends satire, laughter, and love magnificently in her perceptive, raucous comedy."

 Theatrius

"All the characters have their own obsessions that become more and more extreme as the play goes on [...] profoundly transforming them in inventively unexpected ways."

 Marin Independent Journal

"Beautifully written [...] bursting with dark humor."

 Talkin' Broadway

  • Casting: 3M, 1F
  • Casting Notes: Characters can be played by actors of any ethnicity. Please avoid a scenario in which all three humans are played by white actors, and the cat is an actor of color.
    While Dr. Frans, Gregor, and Wink are male characters and Sofie is a female character, these roles are open to genderqueer, transgender, and gender non-conforming actors.

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Wink follows unhappy housewife Sofie and her breadwinning husband, Gregor, who both seek weekly counseling from an unorthodox therapist, Doctor Frans. Their current topic of disagreement: the cat, Wink. 

When Wink goes missing, violent desires, domestic anarchy, and feline vengeance emerge, threatening the neatly ordered reality Sophie, Gregor, and Doctor Frans have constructed.

PLEASE NOTE: This show has a mandatory music fee of A$35.00 per performance.

$24.95