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What girls are expected to give to boys, and women to men, is the searing core of “Usual Girls,” which over 90 minutes follows Kyeoung from elementary school through adolescence to college and...
Usual Girls: Aching Just Like A Woman, and Breaking Too. By Elysa Gardner. ★★★★☆ Ming Peiffer charts the fraught, funny, frightful journey from female adolescence to womanhood in a stirring new play. Left to right: Ali Rose Dachis, Nicole Rodenburg, Sofia Black-D’Elia, Midori Francis and Abby Corrigan in Usual Girls ...
Usual Girls | Peiffer, Ming | ISBN: 9780822240198 | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon.
In the words of its playwright, Ming Peiffer, “Usual Girls” is a show about “the joys and horrors of growing up being a woman — the extreme joys and the extreme horrors.”
Bullied by boys in childhood, ostracized by girls as a teen, and gas-lit by men as an adult, her experiences with sexuality grow more and more challenging. As we trace Kyeoung from the insecurity of puberty to the disenchantment of her adult life, USUAL GIRLS chronicles the wonder, pain, and complexity of growing up female"--Page [4] of cover.
In 2017, during a workshop of Usual Girls, the playwright toyed with the idea of a more hopeful ending in the face of what was then a burgeoning movement.
As we trace Kyeoung from the insecurity of puberty to the disenchantment of her adult life, USUAL GIRLS chronicles the wonder, pain, and complexity of growing up female. “USUAL GIRLS is exciting to watch. With hilarity and grimness, it connects the dots between pleasure, pain and shame.” —The New York Times.
