The Gulf (Full-Length)
by Audrey Cefaly

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Highlights

75 mins Present Day All Women Exterior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes Comedy

Synopsis

Winner of the 2018 Lammy for LGBTQ Drama.

The divide between Kendra and Betty mimics the very world that devours them: a vast and polarizing abyss.

On a quiet summer evening, somewhere down in the Alabama Delta, Kendra and Betty troll the flats looking for redfish.

After Betty begins diagnosing Kendra’s dead-end life with career picks from What Color is Your Parachute , their routine fishing excursion takes a violent turn.

This is the full-length version of the 40th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival winner, The Gulf .

Press Reviews

"Cefaly, who has an ear for the cadence of the region... is invested with an assured, soulful intimacy... How refreshing to encounter a play that does not feel it has to document its sexual politics or suggest that the family’s or community’s reaction, in a part of the country not renowned for tolerance, is what drives a decisive wedge between the characters."

— The Washington Post

"A scorching two-hander character study... The Gulf richly traffics in both silence and the abundant pent-up forces of two people past the first passions of love."

— DC Metro Theater Arts

"As funny as it is powerful, as tender as it is passionate, The Gulf reveals a pair of volatile lovers whose relationship is as sharp as a fishing knife - pointed and dangerous."

— BroadwayWorld

Characters

Character
Kendra

20s-40s. Any race. Any ethnicity. A woman of few words. A loner. Scrappy, dark, brutish and volatile.

Betty

20s-40s. Any race. Any ethnicity. An optimist. A thinker. Restless and tender-hearted.

Videos

Audience reactions to the London premiere of THE GULF

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
ISBN-13 9780573706196
ISBN-10 0573706190

The Gulf (Full-Length) is a comedy play written by Audrey Cefaly and published by Samuel French .

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