''The Gulf'' is a play by American

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...

Audrey Cefaly Audrey Cefaly is an American playwright. Career highlights Cefaly is the recipient of the 2023 National New Play Network's Goldman Prize (Alabaster'), the 2017 Lambda Literary Award ("Lammy") in the category of LGBTQ Drama (''The Gulf (play), Th ...

. It is a recipient of the 2017

Lambda Literary Award for Drama The Lambda Literary Award for Drama is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to an LGBT-related literary or theatrical work. Most nominees are plays, or anthologies of plays; however, non-fiction works on theatre or ...

and the 201
Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award
The play was adapted from a one-act version, which won the 40th Annua
Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival
(2015). The play takes place on a fishing boat in the author's home state of Alabama.

Production highlights

London Premiere - April 2018 ( Tristan Bates Theatre)
Directed by Matthew Gould
Featuring

Louisa Lytton Louisa Claire Lytton (born 7 February 1989) is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Ruby Allen in ''EastEnders'' and Beth Green in ''The Bill''. She also finished fourth in the fourth series of ''Strictly Come Dancing'' in 2006 ...

and Anna Acton Australian Premiere - August 2017 (Camperdown, NSW)
Directed by Melissa Lethbridge
Featuring Diana Popovska and Brenna Harding World Premiere - September 2016
Signature Theatre (Arlington, VA)
Directed by Joe Calarco.

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.

Characters

* Kendra: A loner. Scrappy, dark, brutish and volatile. * Betty: An optimist. A thinker. Restless and tender Hearted.

Awards

* Winner: 2017

* Nominated: 2017 Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play or Musical (Helen Hayes) * Recipient of the 2016 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award * Winner of the 2015 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival.

Publications

Full-Length (Samuel French)
*One-Act:
Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 40th Series (Samuel French)

Love is a Blue Tick Hound (Samuel French)

Best American Short Plays 2014-2015
( Hal Leonard Corporation)

References

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