That Pretty Pretty or The Rape Play
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 23, 2009
Closed Mar 28, 2009
Opened Feb 23, 2009
Closed Mar 28, 2009
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Rattlestick presents the world premiere of That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play, by Sheila Callaghan, directed by Kip Fagan.
A fragmented exploration of the dirty things we find irresistible: guns, gals, Jello wrestling, war and tons of profanity. That Pretty Pretty launches us into the wild subconscious of one individual struggling with his ex-girlfriend, his conscience and everything else on his mind.
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With That Pretty Pretty or The Rape Play, currently at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, playwright Sheila Callaghan takes aim at some of the misogyny in pop culture by skewering a male screenwriter with an adolescent view of women. Unfortunately, the skewering amounts to glib mockery and the play, lacking fresh substantive social critique, quickly becomes tedious.
The play opens with a scene in a generic hotel room where two aggressive, radical women (Lisa Joyce and Danielle Slavic) have lured a man for sex and violence. We quickly learn that the gun-totin' gals -- who know their way around a strip pole -- are on a gruesome crime spree, avenging the death of a woman who died at an abortion [...]