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We Will Not Describe the Conversation

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  2w, 1m

Eugenie Carabatsos

Inspired by a missing scene in Crime and Punishment, We Will Not Describe the Conversation follows a massage therapist whose latest client has come with the news that her estranged brother has committed a heinous crime and is nowhere to be found. The women try to piece together how this happened, while also uncovering their own dark desires and the fear that they will one day turn out like him.

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We Will Not Describe the Conversation

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    2w, 1m
  • Duration
    Duration
    90 minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Adaptation (Literature)
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Teen (Age 14-18)
Accolades
Accolades
  • Winner! KCACTF Harold and Mimi Steinberg Award, 2016

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Summary
Inspired by a missing scene in Crime and Punishment, We Will Not Describe the Conversation follows a massage therapist whose latest client has come with the news that her estranged brother has committed a heinous crime and is nowhere to be found. The women try to piece together how this happened, while also uncovering their own dark desires and the fear that they will one day turn out like him.
History

We Will Not Describe the Conversation was first produced in the New Works Festival at Carnegie Mellon University in 2015, under the direction of Stephen Eckert. The play premiered professionally at 2cents Theatre INK Fest in 2018, in a production directed by Kristin Towers-Rowles.

Keywords
Performing Groups
  • Time Period Present Day
  • Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
  • Additional Features No Intermission
  • Duration 90 minutes

Media

“A well structured and gripping surreally real play. Resentment and remorse, these emotions are played against each other in such a way that they twist you round and round till you dare not even breathe, and then when you think it is safe to breathe, it twists you again.” – Cynthia Clay

“From a mysterious sentence to a thrilling play, We Will Not Describe The Conversation is a gripping parable about murder and memory. Eugenie Carabatsos excitingly explores ideas and nuances of repressed femme power in stark contrast to the violent reality of masculinity and the overwhelmingly patriarchal world we live in today.” – T. Reid Kirtley

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Authors

Eugenie Carabatsos

Eugenie Carabatsos
Eugenie Carabatsos is a New York based playwright. Her full-length plays have won the Kennedy Center Harold and Mimi Steinberg National Student Playwriting Award, BroadwayWorld Award for Best Play in South Carolina, the Trustus Theatre Playwrights Contest, the Mountain Playho ...
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