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About the ShowOn a whim, Louise invites her best friend Thelma for a spontaneous weekend getaway. After an ill-fated encounter with a stranger at a roadside honkytonk, their lifelong friendship is forged into something dangerous and unbreakable. Propelled by a soaring musical score, they set out on a last-chance adventure in a world where every card is stacked against them. |
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RED YES STUDIOin association with THE DONMAR WAREHOUSEEVENING ALL AFTERNOONby Anna Zieglerdirected by Diyan Zorawith Anastasia Hille and Erin KellymanREAD ABOUT THE PRODUCTION |
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★★★★ “Anna Ziegler’s new two-hander at the Donmar Warehouse is a hypnotic, sometimes very funny portrait of figures from different generations who discover that the loss of their mothers creates a bond of sorts between them.”
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★★★★ “the 90-minute two-hander is a tremendous vehicle for two actors. This is a play for actors first!”
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★★★★ “Reaffirms Anna Ziegler’s talent”
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★★★★ “It’s a rare thing, a piece of storytelling that constantly surprises and never settles for the obvious — and it is wonderfully performed…” “A surprising and quietly powerful study of grief and families.”
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★★★★ “Anna Ziegler’s writing…and two quietly outstanding performances, offers a moving study of connection found in unlikely places.”
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★★★★ “The play has an incredibly original focus…a modern version of Hamlet.” “The play’s power ultimately lies in its liminal spaces: between dream, psychosis and reality, between fiction and its creation, and between the tragedy of death and the capacity for healing found within it.”
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★★★★ “Anna Ziegler’s tender new play focuses on these two women — polar opposites oddly yoked by loss — as they grope their way across the alien landscape of bereavement, peppered by humor and suffused in feeling.”
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★★★★ “It’s all about the acting here. There’s nowhere for the two to hide!”
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★★★★ “The acting digs deep into the emotional isolation of each woman.”
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★★★★ “We are inside the minds of characters who speak a different language and have very different thoughts. We never want to stop eavesdropping.”
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★★★★ “The acting is exquisite”
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★★★★ “A deftly written two-hander..a gentle play but its emotional resonance is unmistakable.”
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PHOTOGRAPH 51A FEATURE FILMNatalie Portman to star as scientist Rosalind Franklin in Tom Hooper’s Photograph 51, written by Anna Ziegler, produced by Mandy Greenfield of Red Yes Studio, Ben Cosgrove of Leviathan Productions, Tom Hooper and the studio of FilmNation Entertainment. |
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Produced by MTC, commissioned and developed by Mandy Greenfield for Williamstown Theater Festival
“A buffet of delights…crafted so smartly.”
2024 Tony Award Nomination for Best Play
For Williamstown Theater Festival
“Worth its weight in gold.”
2023 Tony Award Nomination for Best Play, 4 additional Tony Award Nominations
2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
For Williamstown Theater Festival
“A production that burns with new fire and makes a 60-year old play feel devastatingly of the present."
For Williamstown Theater Festival
“A gripping small-scale mystery.” and “A flawless production.”
2021 Tony Award for Best Actress:
Mary-Louise Parker
2021 Tony Award Nomination for Best Play
For Williamstown Theater Festival
“Nimble entertainment and a first-rate workout for your sympathetic nervous system!”
2022 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
For Williamstown Theater Festival
“A work that merits deep and long consideration."
For Williamstown Theater Festival
“A clever truth bomb of a play."
2021 Tony Award Nomination for Best Play
For Manhattan Theatre Club
“A love triangle with a razor’s edges…a show that knows exactly what it wants to do, that then does it, with no apologizing or backtracking.”
2013 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical
For Manhattan Theatre Club
“Shocks and twists of emotional appeal that only the hardest-hearted could resist.”
2015 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance
For Williamstown Theater Festival
“A woke throwback - think of Evita or Les Misérables, the blockbusters that ruled Broadway…musical theatre fans who’ve been wondering why they don’t write dominating parts for women anymore have reason to cheer.”
Produced in association with The New Group
“BABE offers the pleasure of a theatrical novella. In a mere 70 minutes, whole lifetimes are intimated and reassessed as the contradictions inherent in the term 'music business' are teased out."
-- Charles McNulty, The Los Angeles Times
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Mandy Greenfield is the Founder and Principal of Red Yes Studio. The plays and musicals she has commissioned, developed, and produced have garnered every major theatrical honor including Tony Awards, the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, Lucille Lortel Awards, Drama Desk Awards, Obie Awards, and the Kleban Prize in Musical Theatre.
