Evento

Dad don't read this

In a messy teenage bedroom in suburban central Ohio, four girls meet weekly for a sleepover. They talk and snack and play Sims on a laptop. They think about giving up and receding into a sack-dress cult. They fight, they misunderstand each other; they understand each other a bit too well. The girls strive to fulfill their needs and desires, and begin to suspect they don't have a whole lot of agency, anyway, and -- ah, nevermind; that's The Sims. They're still trying to figure it all out. Dad Don't Read This is about puberty and loneliness and the hostility of adult sexuality, trying to get what you want and losing to a very evil shampoo bottle, and the crumbling utopia of girlhood.

Winner of the 2020 Phyllis Anderson prize for the best play by a graduate or undergraduate student at Harvard.

Production:
written by Eliya Smith
directed by Mitchell Polonsky and Chloe Caudel
stage managed by Tayler Everts
produced by Amelia Miller and Belen Mella
designed by Finn Bamber