Spunk
by George C Wolfe

"The true spunk in SPUNK belongs to Mr. Wolfe, who has gallantly met Zora Neale Hurston in the theater on her own uncompromising terms and, better still, has found the imaginative means to make good on his half of so challenging a collaboration. —The New York Times. ”The show—three pre-World War II vignettes of African-American life filtered through Hurston's black, ornery and feminist sensibility—has class, wit and passion…This is a great show…another tantalizing taste of the no longer forgotten Zora Neale Hurston.“ —New York Post. ”Mr. Wolfe has adapted three stories by Miss Hurston—translated them, actually, into jazz and blues—giving them a powerful injection of irony and wit, which in no way diffuses their rage. Mr. Wolfe's mordant humor and his teeming invention are all his own, and if an award were to be given for the most stylish show of the season, his SPUNK, at the Public, should be among the top candidates.“ —The New Yorker. ”Wolfe looks like a major talent on the rise, an"

— Variety