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Crooked

  • Catherine Trieschmann
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573663857

The work of a big accomplished writer's voice...a gem of a discovery.

The New York Times

Gorgeous almost beyond belief.

The London Times

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings, Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: Alcohol, Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Reader's Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
Fourteen year old Laney arrives in Oxford, Mississippi with a twisted back, a mother in crisis and a burning desire to be writer. When she befriends Maribel Purdy, a fervent believer in the power of Jesus Christ to save her from the humiliations of high school, Laney embarks on a hilarious spiritual and sexual journey that challenges her mother's secular worldview and threatens to tear their fragile relationship apart.
REVIEWS:

The work of a big accomplished writer's voice...a gem of a discovery.

The New York Times

Gorgeous almost beyond belief.

The London Times

This is a wonderfully neat play, at once simple and complex, grappling with big issues - matters of faith, fantasy and the flesh - while keeping its sneakers firmly planted on the suburban topsoil of adolescent angst and domestic frictions.

The Daily Telegraph
Premiere Production:

crooked was first performed in a workshop production at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2004. It was directed by Elena Hartwell. crooked premiered Off-Broadway at The Women’s Project in New York City in April 2008. It was directed by Liz Diamond.

Characters

  • Casting: 3F
  • Casting Attributes: All Female, Ensemble cast, Features Teens, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Color blind casting

  • LANEY WATERS - 14; has dystonia, which causes one of her shoulders to draw up, as though she has a slightly hunched back.
    ELISE WATERS - 40s; Laney's mother.
    MARIBEL PURDY - 16; Laney's friend, chubby and radiant.

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    Fourteen year old Laney arrives in Oxford, Mississippi with a twisted back, a mother in crisis and a burning desire to be writer. When she befriends Maribel Purdy, a fervent believer in the power of Jesus Christ to save her from the humiliations of high school, Laney embarks on a hilarious spiritual and sexual journey that challenges her mother's secular worldview and threatens to tear their fragile relationship apart.

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