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Stuck
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Stuck Written by Jessica Goldberg Directed by Abigail Epstein January – February 1999 with CAST CAST |
Set in backwater Middletown, USA—STUCK tells the tale of two twenty-three-year olds, Lula and Margaritah, best friends since they were five years old. They work at a video store during the day and hang out in the car at night minding Margaritah’s baby and wishing they could get out of Middletown. Stifled by their environment, the fulfillment the girls once found in each other is waning. Margaritah falls in love with a right-wing Argentine businessman whose political agenda is a mystery to her. Lula hits the bars and ends up in bed with the father of one of her old school chums. The girls’ love affairs end in despair, and each girl is inspired to change no matter the consequences. The play’s inevitable horrific climax comes because these young women cannot imagine how to attain a reality beyond the one in which they already live.
FROM THE NYTIMES:
....Ms. Goldberg’s play, for instance, produced by Rattlestick Productions at the Theater Off Park, is a Gothic riff on ‘‘Thelma and Louise’‘ with a bit of Mr. Shepard’s ‘‘Buried Child’‘ thrown in. Directed by Abby Epstein, it is the tale of two lost young women working in a video store in ‘‘Middletown, U.S.A.,’‘ and aching for an escape from a stultifying life of alcoholic parents, predatory men, tabloid-television culture and unwanted children.
Now playing: a “gripping drama” by Stephen Belber:
Geometry of Fire.
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