The Gulf (play)
Play by American playwright Audrey Cefaly
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The Gulf is a play by American playwright Audrey Cefaly.[1] It is a recipient of the 2017 Lambda Literary Award for Drama and the 2016 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award. The play was adapted from a one-act version, which won the 40th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival in 2015. The play takes place on a fishing boat in the author's home state of Alabama.[2]
Production history
The Gulf had its world premiere at September 2016 at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA.[3] The play had subsequent productions in Australia in August 2017 and in London in April 2018, where it featured Louisa Lytton and Anna Acton.[4]
Synopsis
The divide between Kendra and Betty mimics the very world that devours them: a vast and polarizing abyss. On a quiet summer evening, somewhere down in the Alabama Delta, Kendra and Betty troll the flats looking for red fish. After Betty begins diagnosing Kendra’s dead-end life with career picks from What Color is Your Parachute, their routine fishing excursion takes a violent turn.[5]
Characters
- Kendra: A loner. Scrappy, dark, brutish and volatile.
- Betty: An optimist. A thinker. Restless and tender Hearted.
Awards
- Winner: 2017 Lambda Literary Award for Drama
- Nominated: 2017 Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play or Musical (Helen Hayes)[6]
- Recipient of the 2016 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award[7]
- Winner of the 2015 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival.[8]