Shhhh

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Shhhh

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  6any gender (adult)

Through a series of disquieting scenes, Shhhh explores the vulnerability of women's bodies, the role of kink in relationships, and the blurry line between pleasure and pain.

Image: 2022 Atlantic Theater Company Production (Ahron R. Foster)

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    6any gender (adult)
  • Duration
    Duration
    90 minutes
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

Details

Summary
Penny flirts at a morbid anatomy museum. Kyle tells stories of dismemberment. Sally turns you on with tea and biscuits, and Shareen prepares a mysterious potion. A study in kink, trauma, pleasure, and revenge…
History
Shhhh first premiered at Atlantic Theatre in NYC in January of 2022.

WITCHY WITCH
SHAREEN
KYLE
PENNY
SANDRA
FRANCIS

  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting A bedroom, a pizza place, a morbid anatomy museum, etc.
  • Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
  • Duration 90 minutes
  • Cautions
    • Intense Adult Themes
    • Strong Language
    • Nudity/Partial Nudity
    • Smoking

Media

“Explicit and occasionally uncomfortable, but for all the right reasons... aches with an unspoken loneliness.” – The New York Times

“A densely layered and intelligent meditation on how weird human sexuality can be. It takes a close up look at something most of us still struggle to articulate.” – The Saturday Paper

“Raw and ambitious! Barron packs a metric ton of confounding dichotomies and paradoxes into a single piece of rebel theater.” – Theatermania

“Explicit and occasionally uncomfortable, but for all the right reasons. The whole production aches with an unspoken loneliness.” – The New York Times

Videos

  • Shhhh is "Off-Broadway's hottest new show!" youtube thumbnail

    Shhhh is "Off-Broadway's hottest new show!"

  • Clare Barron Reads an Excerpt of Shhhh at the 2017 Whiting Awards youtube thumbnail

    Clare Barron Reads an Excerpt of Shhhh at the 2017 Whiting Awards

  • Clare Barron on Writing and Directing Shhhh youtube thumbnail

    Clare Barron on Writing and Directing Shhhh

Photos

  • Shhhh

    Image: 2022 Atlantic Theater Company Production (Ahron R. Foster)

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: £55 per performance plus VAT when applicable.

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Authors

Clare Barron

Clare Barron is a playwright and performer from Wenatchee, Washington. Her play Dance Nation recently received its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons in May 2018 and subsequently its UK premiere at the Almeida Theatre in London. It was a 2019 finalist for the Pulitzer Pri ...

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