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Really Really

Really Really
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
Author: Paul Downs Colaizzo
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change)
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 62
Pub. Date: 2014
ISBN-10: 0822227487
ISBN-13: 9780822227489
Cast Size: 3 female, 4 male

About the Play:

Really Really has become a favourite of acting teachers for Male Monologues, Female/Female Scenes, Female/Male Scenes, and Male/Male Scenes.

Really Really is a full-length drama by Paul Downs Colaizzo. A college-age drama about the young and the ambitious, though some are more ambitious than others. At an elite university, when the party of the year results in the regret of a lifetime, one person will stop at nothing to salvage a future that is suddenly slipping away. The morning after, the annual bash is filled with gossip, self-interest, and lies. The young adults are put in situations where the ways to get ahead are to betray each other, make stuff up, and cut moral corners.

Really Really is set on a 21st century college campus, when a group of "Generation Me" college students attend a wild party called 'The Annual Tunnel of Love' where no phones or cameras are allowed. When morning-after gossip about privileged Davis and ambitious Leigh turns ugly, self-interest collides with the truth and the resulting storm of ambiguity makes it hard to discern just who's a victim, who's a predator, and who's a Future Leader of America. In this quick-witted and gripping comic tragedy about 'Generation Me,' it's every man for himself. All that's certain is when the veneer of loyalty and friendship is stripped back, what's revealed is a vicious jungle of sexual politics, raw ambition, and class warfare where only the strong could possibly survive.

Really Really premiered in 2012 at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia where it broke box office records. It then moved to New York where it played in 2013 at the Lucille Lortel Theater as part of MCC Theatre's season and was extended twice due to popular demand. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and is regularly performed in regional and college theatre productions.

Cast: 3 female, 4 male

What people say:

"Mr. Colaizzo possesses an assured appreciation of the addictive power of ambiguity, which he manipulates with a bait-and-switch mastery that never lets up... This is Lord of the Flies with smartphones." — New York Times

"An exceedingly well-made play. Unexpected and thrilling." — New York Observer

"What starts out to be banal hijinks among a group of upper-crust college kids takes a menacing and calculating turn that resembles the poignancy of an Edward Albee creation." — Washington Diplomat

"Really Really is theater for the Gossip Girl generation – edgy, funny, caustic, shockingbut thoughtful and weighty enough to hold its own even among audience members who think tweeting's for birds and Glee's an after-school activity." — Washingtonian

" Really Really sucks you in with its brio and caustic wit and holds you with its teasingly clever double-edged plot." — Washington Post

About the Playwright:

Paul Downs Colaizzo is an American playwright, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for writing and directing the Sundance darling Brittany Runs a Marathon starring Jillian Bell. The film was a critical hit at the 2019 festival and eventually was acquired by Amazon Prime Video.