Crooked
by Catherine Trieschmann

Name: Crooked
Brand: Catherine Trieschmann
SKU: 9780573663857
Rating: 3.67 (81 reviews)

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

90 mins Present Day All Women Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American Comedy

Synopsis

Dramatic Comedy / 3fFourteen year old Laney arrives in Oxford Mississippi with a twisted back a mother in crisis and a burning desire to be writer.

When she befriends Maribel Purdy a fervent believer in the power of Jesus Christ to save her from the humiliations of high school Laney embarks on a hilarious spiritual and sexual journey that challenges her mother's secular worldview and threatens to tear their fragile relationship apart."The work of a big accomplished writer's voice...a gem

Press Reviews

"Gorgeous almost beyond belief."
— The London Times

"The work of a big accomplished writer's voice...a gem of a discovery."
— The New York Times

"This is a wonderfully neat play, at once simple and complex, grappling with big issues - matters of faith, fantasy and the flesh - while keeping its sneakers firmly planted on the suburban topsoil of adolescent angst and domestic frictions."
— The Daily Telegraph

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Elise Waters 40s; Laney’s mother.	female	40s	40s; Laney’s mother.
Maribel Purdy 16; Laney’s friend; chubby and radiant.	—	—	16; Laney’s friend; chubby and radiant.
Laney Waters 14; has dystonia, which causes one of her shoulders to draw up, as though she has a slightly hunched back.	female	—	14; has dystonia, which causes one of her shoulders to draw up, as though she has a slightly hunched back.