I CAN'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF THIS PLAY!!!

[couchskittles]

Posted: 10/18/18 at 2:48pm

i don't know if this was performed on broadway - probably just off-broadway. it's a play that i read a while ago. it was written by a female playwright in the twenty first century. small cast, i think just two characters. the writing made EXTENSIVE use of idioms. very quippy. characters would use idioms, botch idioms, mix idioms, recycle the words of idioms to say something else .... and i recall there being a motif of a dead child.

it's driving me insane. i've raked through every list of female playwrights, of plays written by female playwrights... and i can't find it.

[John Adams]

Posted: 10/19/18 at 11:31am

It would help if you provided more information than just "idioms" - like a plot, but try here:

https://www.playscripts.com/find-a-play

[astromiami]

Posted: 10/20/18 at 3:13pm

I think characters in most plays speak in idioms, which they sometimes botch, mix and recycle. I am trying to think of a play in which that does NOT happen.

I guess we could rule out Small Mouth Sounds.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 10/20/18 at 3:21pm

John Adams said: "It would help if you provided more information than just "idioms" - like a plot, but try here:

https://www.playscripts.com/find-a-play"

 

That won't help much as it a "finder" for only their own play database.  

 

I think you meant:  http://www.findaplay.com/   But this one is only helpful when you know some of the words in the title.

[couchskittles]

Posted: 10/20/18 at 3:49pm

re:astromiami
no, that's not what i mean. this was a peculiarly avant garde approach approaching nonsense. Dialogue would sound something like this:

A: I took a bath today.
B: I cried like a baby today.
A: I'm going to sleep like a baby.
B: Did you throw out the trash?
A: I threw out the baby.
B: Where's the bath water?

this is a poor rendering, but this is sort of what it was like. Updated On: 10/20/18 at 03:49 PM

[astromiami]

Posted: 10/20/18 at 3:53pm

And Baby Makes Seven?

[astromiami]

Posted: 10/20/18 at 3:53pm

And Baby Makes Seven?

[couchskittles]

Posted: 10/20/18 at 3:56pm

re: more description

i think if anyone knows this play they will know exactly what i mean by "extensive use of idioms".

more plot details:
dialogue is between a woman and her husband
the woman i think is a housewife, who has either had an abortion or lost a child. i don't remember which
husband is a business man.
i think i remember the play taking place in a plane at some point.

[couchskittles]

Posted: 10/20/18 at 3:58pm

definitely wasn't a paula vogel play.

[Rachel S.]

Posted: 10/20/18 at 4:35pm

God’s Ear by Jenny Schwartz

(I made an account just so I could reply to this!)

[Stage Door Sally]

Posted: 10/20/18 at 4:46pm

Welcome Rachel! Stick around!

[couchskittles]

Posted: 10/20/18 at 5:12pm

YOU ARE A GOD SEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

YES!!!! THAT'S IT!!!!!

[couchskittles]

Posted: 10/20/18 at 5:14pm

Rachel S. said: "God’s Ear by Jenny Schwartz

(I made an account just so I could reply to this!)"

THANK YOU RACHEL

[ilysespieces]

Posted: 10/20/18 at 8:01pm

I love seeing the internet work its magic.