Hurricane Diane
by Madeleine George

Name: Hurricane Diane
Brand: Madeleine George
SKU: 9780573708039
Rating: 3.87 (171 reviews)

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Highlights

Female

90 mins Present Day Role(s) for Black Actor(s) Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes Comedy

Awards & Recognition

Obie Award

Winner! 2019 Obie Award for Playwriting

Synopsis

Meet Diane, a permaculture gardener dripping with butch charm.

She’s got supernatural abilities owing to her true identity—the Greek god Dionysus—and she's returned to the modern world to gather mortal followers and restore the Earth to its natural state.

Where better to begin than with four housewives in a suburban New Jersey cul-de-sac?

In this Obie-winning comedy with a twist, Pulitzer Prize finalist Madeleine George pens a hilarious evisceration of the blind eye we all turn to climate change and the bacchanalian catharsis that awaits us, even in our own backyards.

Press Reviews

"An astonishing new play by Madeleine George that whirls ancient myth, lesbian pulp, ecological thriller and The Real Housewives of Monmouth County into a perfect storm of timely tragicomedy."
— Jesse Green, The New York Times

"Hurricane Diane is fantastic, heartbreaking. Full of keen observation and profound human affection, the play both lifts us up and wrings us out."
— Vulture

"What transpired onstage over the next 90 minutes made me glad not just that live performance is back, but that Madeleine George’s incisively smart and boisterously funny play is the high-profile herald of that return. On multiple levels, this is the play we need right now... Hurricane Diane is an environmental parable about climate change and the perils of interfering with nature. But playwright George has embedded her message within a skillfully constructed framework that makes room for plenty of laughs and anarchic energy and, importantly, characterizations that go beyond the Desperate Housewives cartoons they first appear to be."
— Don Aucoin, The Boston Globe