Winner of the 2017 Relentless Award

PUSSY SLUDGE

by Gracie Gardner

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Pussy Sludge

Winner of the 2017 Relentless Award in honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman

By Gracie Gardner

“The most punk play ever.” - Jeremy O. Harris

Pussy Sludge is a play about a woman with a broken pussy.

There's a woman menstruating crude oil. She lives in a swamp. She's in love with Courtney, but her mother prefers RJ.

No one knows who knows what's best.

Gracie Gardner's award-winning play sketches a dystopian setting with an eponymous main character who, in a number of absurd encounters, resists stereotypical gender constructions and socially predetermined life models. Far more than just a feisty criticism of patriarchal systems, the play turns power structures upside down and offers a surreal and comic parable of sexual self-determination that challenges conservative gender constructs and our patriarchal status quo with vigor and irony.

Pussy Sludge is a tender exploration of questioning authority, suspending shame through intimacy, and very bad advice.

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