THE PINK UNICORN

Presented by: OUT OF THE BOX THEATRICS

Episcopal Actors Guild
1 East 29th Street (Between Madison and 5thAvenue)
May 9-25, 2019

Written by: ELISE FORIER EDIE
Directed by: AMY E. JONES
Producing Artistic Director: ELIZABETH FLEMMING
Associate Artistic Director: ETHAN PAULINI
Technical Design: FRANK HARTLEY
Dialect Coach: RENA COOK
Costume Design: HUNTER DOWELL
Wardrobe Supervisor: CARRIE GREENBERG
Graphic Design: GARBRIELLA GARCIA

Featuring: ALICE RIPLEY

Press Agent: RON LASKO

There aren’t enough superlatives to describe this theatre experience. Let me start with this. It’s a MUST SEE for everyone. Alice Ripley will have you going from laughter to crying with her descriptions of the people around her that she portrays and the angst she feels in coming to grips with her daughter, who doesn’t see gender conventionally, and emerges as gender queer.

There is a profoundness in delving into what it means to accept others as they are. Does that include taking an activist role at the risk of being ostracized by your church, school and family? We are asked to come to terms with how even the well-meaning and open-hearted have shunned others who were not like them. The writing is some of the best ever, combining Texas twang and bigotry and east coast wit and sarcasm. The suggestions that what we believe in the bible depends on what passage you read is brilliant, and a reminder that we pick and choose at will. (“So, men kissing men is as much sin as eating shrimp at Red Lobster?”)

THE PINK UNICORN is raw, heartfelt and thought-provoking both for Ms. Ripley as well as her audience. You leave wanting even more, yet knowing full well she has wrung herself out to dry during this extraordinary performance. This play will stay with you for a very long time.

~Ronni Burns~