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From The Director…
It’s a scary thing to direct a play about the popular girls. They are scary
creatures; their beauty, vanity, pride, ignorance, and the frightening
success with which they seem to navigate through life. We love to hate them,
we long to be them, but we rarely, if ever, attempt to see the world through
their eyes.
These particular women grew up during a pivotal time in our country’s
cultural history. This moment, immediately before and after the Kennedy
assassination, more or less created the entire lexicon of modern adolescence.
“Generation gap,” “bra burning,” sexual exploration and identity, the modern
ideals of womanhood...it all came from this sudden shift in values that happened
as the country sunk into an unexpected war.
These three women navigate those perilous cultural waters and ultimately
come to three very different conclusions about the purpose of womanhood and the
fundamental nature of humanity. That’s where we can all relate to these women’s
stories. Because we’ve all ached through break ups, high school rivalries, and
college experimentation. And, most of us have also faced the hard reality that
our formative years did not teach us the things we most needed to learn as
adults.
As Paul Simon so famously wrote, “When I look back on all the crap I learned
in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all…”
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