Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties
1st Edition
Published on 24. January 2018
136 pages
978-1-78682-426-4 (ISBN)
Description
In Collective Rage, the lives of five very different New York women named Betty collide at the intersection of anger, sex and "theat-ah." As they meet, fall in love, rehearse, revel and rage, they realise that they've been stuck reading the same scripts for far too long.
They all come from different backgrounds, and are bored or angry about different things, but the Betty's - each one numbered 1-5 - come together to rehearse a new version of Pyramus and Thisbe, the play within a play in A Midsummer Night's Dream. What follows are discoveries, transformations and raucous comedy.
Hitting the ring with an electrifying soundtrack, looks to kill and spectacular routines, this outrageous comedy packs the punch to shatter lacquered femininity into a thousand glittering pieces. Strongly influenced by cabaret and female drag, this exquisite rejection of shame and stereotype will punch you in the gut, break your heart and then take you dancing.
Collective Rage had its UK premiere at the Southwark Playhouse.
They all come from different backgrounds, and are bored or angry about different things, but the Betty's - each one numbered 1-5 - come together to rehearse a new version of Pyramus and Thisbe, the play within a play in A Midsummer Night's Dream. What follows are discoveries, transformations and raucous comedy.
Hitting the ring with an electrifying soundtrack, looks to kill and spectacular routines, this outrageous comedy packs the punch to shatter lacquered femininity into a thousand glittering pieces. Strongly influenced by cabaret and female drag, this exquisite rejection of shame and stereotype will punch you in the gut, break your heart and then take you dancing.
Collective Rage had its UK premiere at the Southwark Playhouse.
Reviews / Votes
Beautifully absurd, extremely funny, unapologetically feminist and queer. * The Stage *More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-78682-426-4 (9781786824264)
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Book
01/2018
Oberon Books Ltd
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Person
Jen Silverman is a New York based writer. Born in the U.S., she was raised across the U.S., Europe and Asia. Her theatre work includes The Moors, The Roommate, and Phoebe in Winter.
She is a two-time MacDowell fellow, recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, the Helen Merrill Award, an LMCC Fellowship, and the Yale Drama Series Award.
She is a two-time MacDowell fellow, recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, the Helen Merrill Award, an LMCC Fellowship, and the Yale Drama Series Award.
Content
- FRONT COVER
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- CONTENTS
- 1. BETTY 1 IS IN A RAGE
- 2. BETTIES 1 AND 2 AT A DINNER PARTY
- 3. BETTY 3 HAS HER OWN DINNER PARTY, IN WHICH ALL OF US TALK ABOUT PUSSY
- 4. BETTIES 4 AND 5 WORK ON THEIR TRUCKS AND DISCUSS LOVE
- 5. BETTY 1 HAS MORE RAGE, AND DOES SOMETHING ABOUT IT
- 6. BETTIES 3 AND 4 DISCOVER THAT HIGHBROW THINGS ARE JUST THINGS THAT SEEM TO BE ABOUT OTHER THINGS WHEN THEY'RE ACTUALLY ABOUT PUSSY
- 7. BETTY 2 ACTS OUT HER FEELINGS WITH A PUPPET BECAUSE SHE HAS NO REAL FRIENDS
- 8. BETTIES 1 AND 5 DISCUSS TITS AND RAGE
- 9. ALL OF THE BETTIES HAVE THEIR FIRST COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCE OF RAGE, ALSO KNOWN AS REHEARSAL
- 10. BETTY 4 AND 5 WORK ON THEIR TRUCKS AND TALK ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS, WHICH IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR PUSSY.
- 11. BETTY 1 HAS MORE RAGE BUT ACTUALLY THIS TIME IT FEELS LIKE A SOLUTION, OR AT THE VERY LEAST, A VALID POINT OF VIEW
- 12. BETTY 3 TELLS US HER THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS, BECAUSE WE CARE, BECAUSE SHE IS GOING TO BE ALL THE RAGE
- 13. BETTY 2 WATCHES HER PUSSY INSTEAD OF A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT LIONS, AND THEN SHARES SOMETHING PROFOUND WITH US
- 14. THE BETTIES BRING THEIR DEVISED PIECES TO REHEARSAL
- THE WALL HAS LINES
- 15. BETTY 4 HAS RAGE, BUT IT'S THE KIND OF RAGE WHERE YOU LOVE THE PERSON YOU'RE ANGRY AT, SO YOU JUST FEEL SICK AND A LITTLE CRAZY, WHICH MAY BE WHY SHE AUDITIONS FOR THE PART OF THE WALL
- 16. BETTIES 1 AND 5 HAVE A SLUMBER PARTY
- 17. BETTY 2 CURATES THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH SHE IS MOST LIKELY TO FLOURISH
- 18. BETTY 2, HAVING COME TO THE END OF HER ABILITY TO BE A BETTY, BECOMES A LION AND THROWS A DINNER PARTY, THAT IS ALSO A DRESS REHEARSAL, THAT IS ALSO A POINT OF NO RETURN
- 19. THE LAST REHEARSAL WHICH IS OPENING NIGHT WHICH IS A CATASTROPHE BECAUSE NOBODY SHOWS UP EXCEPT BETTY 2'S PUSSY.
