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Lascivious Something

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  3w, 1m

Sheila Callaghan

"Definitely worth spending an undeniably tense evening with, right through an unexpected twist at the end." - Associated Press

"Sheila Callaghan has created a great premise and fascinating characters, her writing intertwining wine and bloo…

Lascivious Something

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 1m
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Senior

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Summary
On a secluded Greek island, an American ex-pat pursues his passions: winemaking and his breathtaking young wife. Then, on the eve of Reagan's inauguration, the first tasting of the new wine is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of August's former lover. Inspired by Greek tragedy, Lascivious Something combines evocative language with sympathetic yet deeply flawed characters straight out of Euripides.
  • Time Period 1980s
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes
    • Nudity/Partial Nudity

Media

"Definitely worth spending an undeniably tense evening with, right through an unexpected twist at the end." - Associated Press

"Sheila Callaghan has created a great premise and fascinating characters, her writing intertwining wine and blood and sex as painful but necessary life forces." - Back Stage

"Sometimes dreamlike, often shocking, Lascivious Something is at once both fraught and languorous, its most powerful moments found in the quietest revelations or silent stares. Go with an open mind and you are certain to find that your cup runneth over with ideas by the final bow." - The Collective Magazine

"Callaghan, whose previous work might be described as post-feminist punk incursions into the poetic turf of early Sam Shepard, here employs a more linear narrative line to push her personal-is-political agenda." - LA Weekly

"Blown Away...Honest, captivating from beginning to end. I can't recommend it enough" - CBS News

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Sheila Callaghan

Sheila Callaghan
Sheila Callaghan's plays have been produced and developed with Soho Rep, Playwright's Horizons, Yale Rep, South Coast Repertory, Clubbed Thumb, The LARK, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, New Georges, The Flea, Woolly Mammoth, Boston Court, and Rattlestick Playwright's Theatre, ...
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