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Ruhl's IN THE NEXT ROOM to Play The Lyceum

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#25re: Ruhl's IN THE NEXT ROOM to Play The Lyceum
Posted: 7/12/09 at 4:22pm

Out of curiosity, who was the last female playwright to have a play produced on Broadway? Was it Suzan-Lori Parks' TOPDOG/UNDERDOG? Or am I way off-base here?

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#26re: Ruhl's IN THE NEXT ROOM to Play The Lyceum
Posted: 7/12/09 at 4:24pm

Now that I think of it, there was Byrony Lavery's extraordinary FROZEN at Circle in the Square back in... 2000? 2001?

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#27re: Ruhl's IN THE NEXT ROOM to Play The Lyceum
Posted: 7/12/09 at 4:27pm

Um...Yasmina Reza, author of God of Carnage. re: Ruhl's IN THE NEXT ROOM to Play The Lyceum

Frozen was 2004, by the way.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

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#28re: Ruhl's IN THE NEXT ROOM to Play The Lyceum
Posted: 7/12/09 at 4:39pm

Oh, wow, I'm an idiot. I even thought about ART for a second. D'oh!

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#29re: Ruhl's IN THE NEXT ROOM to Play The Lyceum
Posted: 7/12/09 at 4:42pm

Reza also has Life x 3 at Circle in the Square in 2003. There was also Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphosis in 2002 and Theresa Rebeck's Mauritius.

Broadway has made great strides in including female playwrights (and lyricists and directors) in the past decade, but we're still far from where we should be. That said, I really cannot stomach Ruhl's plays and would much rather see LCT produce something by Anne Washburn or Lynn Nottage on Broadway.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

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#30re: Ruhl's IN THE NEXT ROOM to Play The Lyceum
Posted: 7/12/09 at 4:51pm

Ah, yes, I didn't get to see METAMORPHOSIS sadly. But I enjoyed MAURITIUS. I love Ruhl, but some Nottage would be nice on the Great White Way.

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#31re: Ruhl's IN THE NEXT ROOM to Play The Lyceum
Posted: 7/12/09 at 9:12pm

There was also Lisa Kron's Well.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

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#32re: Ruhl's IN THE NEXT ROOM to Play The Lyceum
Posted: 7/12/09 at 9:22pm

Laura Benanti would be a very interesting casting choice. I wonder which role she would play--there are two feasible roles she could play; one would be the sexually repressed patient, Mrs. Daldry or the distressed house wife, Mrs. Givings.
Updated On: 7/12/09 at 09:22 PM

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#33re: Ruhl's IN THE NEXT ROOM to Play The Lyceum
Posted: 7/12/09 at 9:35pm

I believe Benanti is playing Mrs. Daldry.

Mrs. Givings would be cast slightly older, no?

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#34re: Ruhl's IN THE NEXT ROOM to Play The Lyceum
Posted: 7/12/09 at 9:42pm

Yeah, the comedy is that Mrs. Givings is a (somewhat) older woman who has her (first?) orgasm at the end of the first act after she sneaks into her husband's office.

Laura as Mrs. Daldry is actually...pretty wonderful.

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#35re: Ruhl's IN THE NEXT ROOM to Play The Lyceum
Posted: 7/12/09 at 10:32pm

From what I gathered, Mrs. Givings and Mrs. Daldry were relatively close in age, though of course, Mrs. Givings was a bit older. With that being said, the role of Mrs. Daldry would be a great fit for Benanti.

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