The Gulf (play)

The Gulf is a play by American playwright Audrey Cefaly.[1] It is a recipient of the 2017 Lambda Literary Award for Drama and the 2016 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award. The play was adapted from a one-act version, which won the 40th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival in 2015. The play takes place on a fishing boat in the author's home state of Alabama.[2]

Production history

The Gulf had its world premiere at September 2016 at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA.[3] The play had subsequent productions in Australia in August 2017 and in London in April 2018, where it featured Louisa Lytton and Anna Acton.[4]

Synopsis

The divide between Kendra and Betty mimics the very world that devours them: a vast and polarizing abyss. On a quiet summer evening, somewhere down in the Alabama Delta, Kendra and Betty troll the flats looking for red fish. After Betty begins diagnosing Kendra’s dead-end life with career picks from What Color is Your Parachute, their routine fishing excursion takes a violent turn.[5]

Characters

  • Kendra: A loner. Scrappy, dark, brutish and volatile.
  • Betty: An optimist. A thinker. Restless and tender Hearted.

Awards

Publications

References

  1. ^ "audrey-cefaly-writer". Retrieved August 26, 2016.
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  3. ^ "The Gulf". Signature Theatre. Retrieved October 9, 2025.
  4. ^ Fearn, Simon (May 4, 2018). "Review: The Gulf, Tristan Bates Theatre". A Younger Theatre. Retrieved October 9, 2025.
  5. ^ "audrey-cefaly-writer". Retrieved August 26, 2016.
  6. ^ "Nominations for the 2017 Helen Hayes Awards". theatrewashington.org. Archived from the original on November 30, 2020. Retrieved September 28, 2017.
  7. ^ "New Plays in Production". www.tcg.org. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
  8. ^ "Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 40th Series". Samuel French. Retrieved April 21, 2016.
  9. ^ "Love is a Blue Tick Hound | Samuel French". samuelfrench.com. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
  10. ^ "The Best American Short Plays 2014-2015 - Hal Leonard Performing Arts Publishing Group". www.halleonardbooks.com. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
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