You May Go Now - A Marriage Play
by Bekah Brunstetter
by Bekah Brunstetter
You May Go Now is a darkly comic exploration of 1950s domesticity clashing with the complexities of modern life, as a young woman trained by her mother must navigate a world filled with unsettling truths.
About The Play
About The Play
A European premiere from multi-award-winning new American playwright – and Playwright-in-Residence at the Finborough Theatre – Bekah Brunstetter.
Dottie has trained Betty to be the perfect 1950s housewife: to cook, to clean and to warm her husband’s slippers. Now Betty turns eighteen and it’s time for her to be released into the big wide world, except the world is that of 2010 – vast, complex, dirty – and quick to throw up ghosts from their past. Now the biscuits are burning, there’s blood on the Linoleum, and the twisted reality beneath the sugar coating is just about to reveal itself.
Kitsch and comic, You May Go Now is a gingham-clad take on the more sinister side of marriage from one of America’s most exciting new playwrights.
“A fiendishly clever social satire” The Star-Ledger, New Jersey