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Pretty Theft
Pretty Theft
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Author: Adam Szymkowicz Publisher: Samuel French (cover image may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 78 Pub. Date: 2009 ISBN-10: 0573697213 ISBN-13: 9780573697210 Cast Size: 4 female, 3 male
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About
the Play:
Pretty
Theft has become a
favourite of acting teachers for Female Monologues and Female/Male
Scenes.
Pretty
Theft is a full-length dramatic comedy by Adam Szymkowicz.
In the summer between high school and college, Allegra must fend for
herself as she is faced with a summer job at a rest home, a new best
friend who's hellbent on self-destruction, a boyfriend who is a
terrible kisser, a disastrous roadtrip in a stolen car, a kidnapper,
and provocative lipstick.
Pretty
Theft follows the journey of two 18-year-old girls who find
themselves building unexpected connections between themselves and two
men. After losing her father, ex-ballerina Allegra falls under the
wing of bad girl Suzy, only to find an unexpected friendship with
with Joe, an autistic savant who likes to put things in boxes. He is
obsessed with Allegra, and dreams of ballerinas spinning and spinning
into his future. When that friendship takes a violent turn, Allegra
and Suzy escape cross country and befriend Marco, a mysterious thief
who claims he cannot be caught! Pretty Theft is about
ballerinas, boxes, and the dangers of beauty.
Pretty
Theft
premiered in 2009 at the Access Theatre by Flux Theatre Ensemble
Off-Off-Broadway in New York City. The
play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and
workshops and been
performed
in regional and college theatre productions.
Cast:
4 female, 3 male
What
people say:
"Disturbing
but touching...Mr. Szymkowicz writes quirky plays about contemporary
topics like online dating and gender roles, but there always seems to
be something – a knife, a rope, a dead body – in an unexpected
place. In Pretty Theft, the undercurrent of
danger goes beyond quirkiness; it's more subtle and ultimately more
horrifying. The play takes place in a terrifying world where reckless
people get hurt, and so do more or less innocent bystanders."
— New York Times
"Szymkowicz
has not only taken the notion of theft and flipped it on its head –
he's taken a story about human beings at their worst and shown how we
can claw our way back from the brink by finding the good within
ourselves." — The Villager
"Adam
Szymkowicz has written a play full of interesting
people...The dialogue and humor in this play are excellent...It runs
a lean, intermission-less 90 minutes and is very satisfying...This
would be good theater for young women not only to see but also to
perform." — NYTheatre.com
About
the Playwright:
Adam
Szymkowicz is an American playwright who graduated in 2007 from
The Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights
Program. In 2004, he received his playwriting MFA from Columbia
University, where he was the Dean's Fellow. His work has been
produced throughout the U.S., and in Canada, England, The
Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Slovenia, and
Lithuania.
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