About the Show
Rogue Machine presents the West Coast premiere of Nice Girl, the poignant and affecting play by two-time Lecomte du Noüy Prize winner Melissa Ross, taking center stage upstairs on the Henry Murray Stage under the direction of Ann Bronston.
In suburban Massachusetts, 1984, thirty-seven-year-old Josephine Rosen has a dead-end job, still lives with her mother, and has settled into the uncomfortable comfort of an unintended spinsterhood. But when a chance flirtation with an old classmate and a new friendship at work give her hope for the possibility of change, she dusts off the Jane Fonda tapes and begins to take tentative steps towards a new life. A play about the tragedy and joy of figuring out who you are and letting go of who you were supposed to be.
A tenderly drawn drama…NICE GIRL presents a slice of middle-class life with unpatronizing honesty and simplicity” —The New York Times.
