Hurricane Diane

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Hurricane Diane

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  4w, 1gnc (adult)

Madeleine George

Pulitzer Prize finalist Madeleine George pens a hilarious evisceration of the blind eye we all turn to climate change and the bacchanalian catharsis that awaits us, even in our own backyards.

Image: 2019 New York Theatre Workshop Production (Joan Marcus)

Hurricane Diane

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    4w, 1gnc (adult)
  • Duration
    Duration
    90 minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Not Applicable
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Teen (Age 14-18)
Accolades
Accolades
  • Winner! 2019 Obie Award for Playwriting

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Summary
Meet Diane, a permaculture gardener dripping with butch charm. She’s got supernatural abilities owing to her true identity—the Greek god Dionysus—and she's returned to the modern world to gather mortal followers and restore the Earth to its natural state. Where better to begin than with four housewives in a suburban New Jersey cul-de-sac? In this Obie-winning comedy with a twist, Pulitzer Prize finalist Madeleine George pens a hilarious evisceration of the blind eye we all turn to climate change and the bacchanalian catharsis that awaits us, even in our own backyards.
History

Hurricane Diane premiered off-Broadway in 2019 at New York Theatre Workshop, under the direction of Leigh Silverman. The play made its world premiere at Two River Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey in 2017.

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Performing Groups

Carol Fleischer, 39

Pam Annunziata, 40s

Renee Shapiro-Epps, 40s

Beth Wann, 30s

Diane



Casting note from the author: Diane may be played by any butch person who does not identify as male. The character is a butch dyke but the actor need not be – casting can run the spectrum of non-cis-male performers, from a straight woman who can convincingly play a butch lesbian to a trans man who’s willing to play a butch lesbian. Please contact your licensing agent with questions and concerns.

  • Time Period Contemporary, New Millennium/21st Century, Greek/Roman/Biblical
  • Setting

    The kitchen of a house on a well-appointed cul-de-sac in Red Bank, New Jersey.

  • Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes, Period Costumes
  • Additional Features No Intermission, Play with Music, Special Effects
  • Duration 90 minutes
  • Cautions
    • Strong Language
    • Mild Adult Themes

Media

“Smart and boisterously funny... On multiple levels, this is the play we need right now.” – The Boston Globe

“An astonishing new play by Madeleine George that whirls ancient myth, lesbian pulp, ecological thriller and The Real Housewives of Monmouth County into a perfect storm of timely tragicomedy.” – Jesse Green, The New York Times

“Hurricane Diane is fantastic, heartbreaking. Full of keen observation and profound human affection, the play both lifts us up and wrings us out.” – Vulture

“What transpired onstage over the next 90 minutes made me glad not just that live performance is back, but that Madeleine George’s incisively smart and boisterously funny play is the high-profile herald of that return. On multiple levels, this is the play we need right now... Hurricane Diane is an environmental parable about climate change and the perils of interfering with nature. But playwright George has embedded her message within a skillfully constructed framework that makes room for plenty of laughs and anarchic energy and, importantly, characterizations that go beyond the Desperate Housewives cartoons they first appear to be.” – Don Aucoin, The Boston Globe

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  • Hurricane Diane

    Image: 2019 New York Theatre Workshop Production (Joan Marcus)

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Madeleine George

Madeleine George
Madeleine George’s plays include Hurricane Diane (Obie Award), The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence (Pulitzer Prize finalist; Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award), Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England (Susan Smith Blackburn finalist), Precious Little and Th ...
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