Girls in Trouble
Play Description
GIRLS IN TROUBLE is a striking and ferocious play which dares to explore the controversial history of abortion, through its life-changing affect on women across several generations. This darkly humorous, shocking work is sure to inspire spirited debate.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male, multiethnic cast)Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
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Press Quotes
“GIRLS IN TROUBLE is the most thought-provoking (and also the funniest) play I’ve seen in New York since — well, since May 1997, when I saw (twice) STONEWALL JACKSON’S HOUSE, Reynolds’s razor-sharp play about race and political correctness … In GIRLS IN TROUBLE, Reynolds tackles another impossible subject: abortion … The adjective “Shavian” occurs frequently in discussions of Jonathan Reynolds’s work. Old Bernard was in many ways a crackpot; he was certainly a political ignoramus of the first water. But he was an effective playwright because he excelled in dramatizing difficult ideas — ideas, that is, that were difficult because they were at odds with his audience’s prejudices and preconceptions. Reynolds is indeed Shavian in this sense. In articles and interviews, he is invariably described as “conservative” or listing rightwards. I have no idea about the nature of his personal political convictions. But GIRLS IN TROUBLE is not a conservative play …” —Roger Kimball, The Weekly Standard
“… GIRLS IN TROUBLE, Jonathan Reynolds’s bracing assault on assumptions about the right to choose abortion … he also goes places intellectually and dramatically that no left-wing dramatist would dare. At times that’s thrilling. In a Shavian provocation for the age of Fox News, this play tells three disturbing and loosely connected stories — from the 1960s, the 1980s and the present — about the conflicts surrounding abortion …” —Jason Zinoman, The New York Times
Author(s)
Jonathan ReynoldsAll ten of Jonathan Reynolds's plays have been produced in New York, most recently DINNER WITH DEMONS, an autobiographical one-man show in which he prepared a full five-course meal onstage eight times a week. Other notable plays include the controversial STONEWALL JACKSON'S HOUSE, which the Pulitzer Drama Jury recommended for the award; GENIUSES, produced by Playwrights Horizons and which ran for a year Off-Broadway; and the first plays he wrote, a pair of one-acts, YANKS 3 DETROIT O TOP OF THE 7TH and RUBBERS at The American Place. Less notable plays include FIGHTING INTERNATIONAL FAT, also produced at Playwrights Horizons, AND TUNNEL FEVER OR THE SHEEP IS OUT, also produced at The American Place. Although five of his screenplays have also been produced, most notably Micki & Maude and My Stepmother is an Alien, his most memorable experiences in filmmaking have been with Apocalypse Now and Leonard Part 6, both of which could have gone either way. He is the recipient of Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundation grants as well as The Dramatists Guild Flora Roberts Award for Sustained Achievement. For five years, he was Treasurer of The Dramatists Guild of America, and for six years wrote a bi-weekly food column for The New York Times Sunday Magazine. His memoir, Wrestling With Gravy: A Life, with Food, was recently published by Random House, and his next play GIRLS IN TROUBLE was produced at The Flea Theatre in New York in February 2010. He lives in New York with his wife, the set designer and producer, Heidi Ettinger, and between them they have five sons.
Special Notes
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Originally produced by The Flea Theater, New York
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