Hurricane Diane
- Full Length Play, Comedy, Fantasy/Adventure, Contemporary
- 5F
- ISBN: SFNY-11047
Pulitzer Prize finalist Madeline George pens a hilarious evisceration of the blind eye we all turn to climate change and the bacchanalian catharsis that awaits us, even in our own backyards.
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Description
- Full Length Play
- Comedy, Fantasy/Adventure
- 90 minutes
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
- Performance Group:
- Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Meet Diane, a permaculture gardener dripping with butch charm. She's got supernatural abilities owing to her true identity -- the Greek god Dionysus -- and she's returned to the modern world to gather mortal followers and restore the Earth to its natural state. Where better to begin than with four housewives in a suburban New Jersey cul-de-sac?
Pulitzer Prize finalist Madeline George pens a hilarious evisceration of the blind eye we all turn to climate change and the bacchanalian catharsis that awaits us, even in our own backyards.
REVIEWS:
Pulitzer Prize finalist Madeline George pens a hilarious evisceration of the blind eye we all turn to climate change and the bacchanalian catharsis that awaits us, even in our own backyards.
REVIEWS:
"A perfect storm of timely tragicomedy."
The New York Times
"An astonishing new play by Madeleine George that whirls ancient myth, lesbian pulp, ecological thriller and The Real Housewives of Monmouth County into a perfect storm of timely tragicomedy."
The New York Times
"Hurricane Diane is fantastic, heartbreaking. Full of keen observation and profound human affection, the play both lifts us up and wrings us out."
Vulture
Premiere Production:
Hurricane Diane premiered in 2017 at Two River Theatre in New Jersey, under the direction of Leigh Silverman.
Characters
- Casting: 5F
- Casting Attributes: All Female
- Casting Notes: Diane may be played by any butch person who does not identify as male. The character is a butch dyke but the actor need not be -- casting can run the spectrum of non-cis-male performers, from a straight woman who can convincingly play a butch lesbian to a trans man who's willing to play a butch lesbian.
