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At The Wedding

At The Wedding
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
Author: Bryna Turner
Publisher: Samuel French (cover may change)
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 74
Pub. Date: 2022
Edition: Acting
ISBN-10: 057371004X
ISBN-13: 9780573710049
Cast Size: 4 female, 2 male, 1 any gender

About the Play:

At The Wedding is a full-length comedy by Bryna Turner. Carlo crashes her ex-girlfriend's wedding to a man with three simple goals: Don't get drunk. Don't make any kids cry. Don't try to win back the bride, no matter how boring the groom is. (She'll ultimately fail at all three.) At The Wedding is a very, very funny play about loneliness, estrangement, and a slow-burn romance with being alive.

At The Wedding follows the world's loneliest (and wittiest) single woman, Carlo, as she crashes the wedding of her ex-girlfriend. Her ex is marrying a man, and Carlo is going to be really well behaved today. She's not going to get drunk. She's not going to give any long-winded speeches. And she's definitely not going to try to steal the bride back. Upon arriving at the wedding, she turns on her charisma and charm and flirts her way through the party. From friends to enemies to former lovers and even strangers, Carlo sees them all and begins to wonder if heartbreak is really permanent. Through humour and wit, you get an intimate look at the struggles of rejection and self-acceptance. Carlo's story and feelings resonate with people of all backgrounds, touching on the universal desire for acceptance and love. The play is inspired by Dorothy Baker's Cassandra at the Wedding.

At The Wedding premiered in 2022 at LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater Off-Broadway in New York City and was a resounding success, garnering sold-out shows and an extended run. It received the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation's Theatre Visions Award, was a NY Times Critic's Pick, and was featured in the NYT Best of 2022 “Unforgettable Theatrical Moments" category. Since then the play had regional premieres at professional theatres across the US and has been mounted by college theatres.

Cast: 4 female, 2 male, 1 any gender

What people say:

"Whimsical... laughter constantly flows, quite often outrageously so, through 70 lively minutes."New York Stage Review

"Brutally hilarious!" — TheaterMania

"Bitterly funny... wisecracking and wisdom-sharing about the unbreakable bond between love and pain... there's a fun time to be had at this wedding." — New York Theatre Guide

"Fresh and trenchant... The lines are funny; Turner has a boxer's sense of the two-punch rhythm of jokes... Authorial patience is part of what makes At the Wedding so fresh; though there are plenty of one-liners, it is not a yuk-yuk comedy foisting its laughs at you or over-signaling its intentions... Also revivifying is the way Turner reshapes the wedding genre for our time, inviting new characters to the party." — New York Times

About the Playwright:

Bryna Turner is a Brooklyn-based American playwright originally from Northern California. Bryna is an alum of Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writer's Group, a MacDowell fellow, and holds an MFA in Playwriting from Rutgers University.

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