The Female of the Species
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 10, 2010
Closed Mar 14, 2010
Opened Feb 10, 2010
Closed Mar 14, 2010
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Written by Joanna Murray-Smith
Directed by Randall Arney
Academy Award nominee Annette Bening returns to the Geffen Playhouse in this wildly wicked farce. Watch and laugh as a famed feminist author's retreat is rudely and hilariously interrupted by a host of unexpected guests: a disgruntled student, an impatient cabbie, her longtime publisher, her overlooked daughter and simplistic son-in-law. Writer's block has never been so funny!
Featuring: David Arquette, Annette Bening, Mireille Enos, Julian Sands, Josh Stamberg and Merritt Wever.
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Motherhood, sexuality, identity and ideals all get heavily and hilariously whacked with a feminist 2x4 in Joanna Murray-Smith's farce, The Female of the Species, now getting its American premiere at the Geffen Playhouse. Under Randall Arney's energetic direction, and with the help of a small, starry cast led by the superb Annette Bening, The Female of the Species becomes a fast-moving 95-minute rollercoaster ride that culminates in a sharp, slam-bang finish.
Feminism and its ripple effects are certainly the primary targets here, but Murray-Smith also gets in digs at the decline of the publishing industry, where big thinking and the exploration of grand ideas are being sacrificed to the qui[...]