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    How to transcend a happy marriage (TCG Edition)
    How to transcend a happy marriage (TCG Edition)
    How to transcend a happy marriage (TCG Edition)
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    How to transcend a happy marriage (TCG Edition)

    By Sarah Ruhl

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    “This new play is a subversive enchantment. It is part absurd domestic seriocomedy, part erotic magic realism, unflinching about taboos and about questioning that, just maybe, monogamy isn’t enough.” —Linda Winer, Newsday

    Over dinner with another married couple, George and her husband grow fascinated by stories of their friends’ new acquaintance—an intriguing younger woman named Pip. What begins as an innocent intellectual discussion turns into a sexually explosive New Year’s Eve party after George extends an invitation to Pip and her two live-in boyfriends, raising the question: What ultimately binds human beings together?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTheatre Communications Group
    Release dateSep 3, 2019
    ISBN9781559368889
    How to transcend a happy marriage (TCG Edition)
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    Sarah Ruhl

    Sarah Ruhl is a playwright, essayist, and poet. Her fifteen plays include In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play), The Clean House, and Eurydice. She has been a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Tony Award nominee, and the recipient of the MacArthur “genius” Fellowship. Her plays have been produced on- and off-Broadway, around the country, internationally, and have been translated into many languages. Her book 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write was a New York Times Notable Book. Her other books include Letters from Max, with Max Ritvo, and 44 Poems for You. She has received the Steinberg Playwright Award, the Samuel French Award, the Feminist Press Under 40 Award, the National Theater Conference Person of the Year Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a Whiting Award, a Lily Award, and a PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for mid-career playwrights. She teaches at the Yale School of Drama, and she lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Tony Charuvastra, who is a child psychiatrist, and their three children. You can read more about her work at SarahRuhlPlaywright.com.

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      How to transcend a happy marriage (TCG Edition) - Sarah Ruhl

      PROLOGUE

      The forest.

      Forest sounds.

      Steam rises from a recently slaughtered animal.

      A woman—Pip—runs in toward the animal, which she has just killed.

      She puts her arms around the animal.

      If you cannot achieve this beautifully, go straight to Scene 1.

      Act One

      SCENE 1

      A domestic space.

      A dinner table. Two women and two men eating dinner. Some meat still on the table, and some nice vegetables.

      JANE

      So this woman at my office, a temp, she’s incredibly beautiful, and very, you know energetic, and yesterday she came in with circles under her eyes and I said what’s wrong are you tired? Yes, she said. Yes, I am. And I thought no wonder, because she’s in this polyamorous relationship with two men—

      GEORGE

      What? Really?

      JANE

      Yes—

      PAUL

      They live together?

      JANE

      Yes.

      GEORGE

      Are the two men bi—or gay—or—

      JANE

      I’m not really sure but no I don’t think so I think she’s the hub—

      MICHAEL

      The hub?

      JANE

      Like, they have sex with her, the hub—but they don’t necessarily all have sex with each other—

      PAUL

      Why not?

      JANE

      I haven’t asked. But anyway so she came into work the other day tired—

      GEORGE

      I can imagine—I’d be so tired—

      JANE

      But not, as I’d suspected, from having sex with two men all weekend, but because she’d slaughtered a goat.

      PAUL

      A goat?

      JANE

      A goat. She slaughters all her own meat for the winter. She used to be a vegetarian but now she ethically slaughters her own meat—looks into its big brown soulful eyes, asks for forgiveness and then—

      She makes a slicing motion.

      GEORGE

      Wow.

      PAUL

      Wow.

      GEORGE

      Why?

      JANE

      It’s the idea that if you are willing to eat meat you should be willing to kill it. And eat all the parts of the animal in a respectful way.

      GEORGE

      I don’t know if I could do that. Slaughter my own meat. Do you think I shouldn’t eat meat if I can’t bring myself to slaughter it?

      PAUL

      No. You don’t walk around naked just because you don’t know how to knit. You let someone else knit. Or sew. Or make your cheese.

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