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Secretaries, The

"The Secretaries is a sustained, amusing look at the fine line between aggression and assertiveness."

The New Yorker

"The Five Lesbian Brothers render their satirical portraits with a deft but merciless eye."

The Los Angeles Times

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dark Comedy

  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
Something's rotten in Big Bone! Pretty Patty Johnson is thrilled to join the secretarial pool at the Cooney Lumber Mill under the iron-fisted leadership of sultry office manager Susan Curtis. But she soon begins to feel that all is not right—the enforced diet of Slim-Fast shakes, the strange clicking language between the girls, the monthly disappearance of a lumberjack. By the time Patty discovers murder is part of these office killers' skill set, it's too late to turn back! 

In the guise of satiric exploitation-horror, The Secretaries takes an unflinching look at the warping cultural expectations of femininity.
REVIEWS:

"The Secretaries is a sustained, amusing look at the fine line between aggression and assertiveness."

 The New Yorker

"The Five Lesbian Brothers render their satirical portraits with a deft but merciless eye."

 The Los Angeles Times

"95 minutes worth of gritty, bawdy, bloody humor pregnant with incisive social commentary."

 San Francisco Examiner

"A mordantly cheerful slice of Grand Guignol."

 The New York Times

Premiere Production: The Secretaries was first produced at the WOW Café in New York City in December of 1993, under the direction of Kate Stafford.

Characters

  • Casting: 5F
  • Casting Attributes: Expandable casting, All Female

  • DAWN MIDNIGHT - office lesbian
    ASHLEY ELIZABETH FRATANGELO - Susan's sycophant, bulimic
    PATTY JOHNSON - the new girl
    SUSAN CURTIS - office manager/cult leader
    PEACHES MARTIN
    BUZZ BENIKEE - sensitive lumberjack
    HANK AND SANDY - sexually harassing lumberjacks (slow)
    MR. RON KEMBUNKSCHER - the boss

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    Secretaries, The Script Order Now

    Something's rotten in Big Bone! Pretty Patty Johnson is thrilled to join the secretarial pool at the Cooney Lumber Mill under the iron-fisted leadership of sultry office manager Susan Curtis. But she soon begins to feel that all is not right—the enforced diet of Slim-Fast shakes, the strange clicking language between the girls, the monthly disappearance of a lumberjack. By the time Patty discovers murder is part of these office killers' skill set, it's too late to turn back! In the guise of satiric exploitation-horror, The Secretaries takes an unflinching look at the warping cultural expectations of femininity.

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