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

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.

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.

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

And Baby Makes Seven?

definitely wasn't a paula vogel play.

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