Synopsis
What Every Girl Should Know
$13
Published by Dramatists Play Service
0 Male 4 Female
Then new girl Joan shows up, bearing illegal contraband of birth control materials distributed by the women's-rights activist Margaret Sanger
The girls start reading the material and jokingly pretend to venerate Sanger as a saint
But then they undergo a profound conversion experience ...
They begin to follow Sanger's life in the newspapers, pretending that they're traveling on their own, assassinating enemies and taking lovers at will
Through their letters to each other, they reveal their pasts, sliding deeper and deeper into their fantasy world
To the extent that objects from their fantasy world start appearing in the real one
Including a baby
REVIEWS
"As tight as it is timely as pertinent as the latest attack on Sanger's great legacy, Planned Parenthood" ~ SFGate.com
"Top to bottom, start to finish ... an excellent piece of theater as long as the war over women's reproductive rights rages on, [this is] a story people need to keep telling" ~ NYTheatre.com
"Historical but vibrant, full of [young women's] mischievous energy " ~ Daily Beast