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Seagull (Thinking of You): with Family and Away Uniform
This is the first collection of plays by OBIE award winning Tina Satter, described as a "rising experimental star" by the New York Times and named a 2011 Off-Off Broadway Innovator to Watch by Time Out New York . Seagull (Thinking of You) is a personal look at performance, failure and attempted love -- ultimately an unexpected meditation on why we ever try to say something out loud. This volume includes the plays Family , named a Top 10 show of 2009 by Time Out New York and Away Uniform .
- GenresPlays
160 pages, Paperback
First published April 8, 2014
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February 27, 2017
I saw Tina Satter's play GHOST RINGS at the American Realness festival in January and ordered this collection of her plays from 53rd State Press as soon as I got home. Creepy adolescent girls/field hockey players, a queer/trans reworking of Chekhov's Seagull, an older sister named Frarajaca singing sweet pop songs about a "beautiful gangbang" and her missing cartouche -- avant-garde adolescence in the vein of Kathy Acker: exuberant, unnerving, offkilter, mean, tender, it's everything. GHOST RINGS still my favorite though not collected here.
From AWAY UNIFORM:
JEM: ....I got there. I got back there and I just crouched down. I was sweaty. And I just crouched down behind that dumpster. And I took off my sweaty old headband. And I took off my underwear. I really wanted to feel clean and salty. It was that really pretty time of pre-night....And I could feel the grass on my butt. One piece poked up and it felt really sharp. And I looked down at my shoes, those sharp black cleats with purple stripes. They were really strong shoes. I could plant my foot and they would just like hold. I know what it's like to have important things around you. And to lose things. And to make the choices that cause you to lose things. And the deep hollow center to that knowledge that is the anchor to a place like this. A working farm. I can't say I knew where I was going. And who I was coming towards. But I knew what I was leaving. (Pause.) Yeah. (Pause.) I was in my away uniform.
From AWAY UNIFORM:
JEM: ....I got there. I got back there and I just crouched down. I was sweaty. And I just crouched down behind that dumpster. And I took off my sweaty old headband. And I took off my underwear. I really wanted to feel clean and salty. It was that really pretty time of pre-night....And I could feel the grass on my butt. One piece poked up and it felt really sharp. And I looked down at my shoes, those sharp black cleats with purple stripes. They were really strong shoes. I could plant my foot and they would just like hold. I know what it's like to have important things around you. And to lose things. And to make the choices that cause you to lose things. And the deep hollow center to that knowledge that is the anchor to a place like this. A working farm. I can't say I knew where I was going. And who I was coming towards. But I knew what I was leaving. (Pause.) Yeah. (Pause.) I was in my away uniform.
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