HURRICANE DIANE
MAY 5, 2022 - MAY 28, 2022
by MADELEINE GEORGE
directed by LILY WOLFF
HOUSTON PREMIERE
2019 OBIE AWARD WINNER
Meet Diane, a permaculture gardener dripping with butch charm. She’s got supernatural abilities owing to her true identity—the Greek god Dionysus—and she’s returned to the modern world to gather mortal followers and restore the Earth to its natural state. Where better to begin than with four housewives in a suburban New Jersey cul-de-sac? Pulitzer Prize finalist Madeleine George pens a hilarious evisceration of the blind eye we all turn to climate change and the bacchanalian catharsis that awaits us, even in our own backyards.
REVIEWS
“SMART AND BOISTEROUSLY FUNNY…ON MULTIPLE LEVELS, THIS IS THE PLAY WE NEED RIGHT NOW.”
-Boston Globe
“AN ASTONISHING NEW PLAY BY MADELEINE GEORGE THAT WHIRLS ANCIENT MYTH, LESBIAN PULP, ECOLOGICAL THRILLER, AND THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF MONMOUTH COUNTY INTO A PERFECT STORM OF TIMELY TRAGICOMEDY.”
-NY Times
“HURRICANE DIANE IS FANTASTIC, HEARTBREAKING. FULL OF KEEN OBSERVATION AND PROFOUND HUMAN AFFECTION, THE PLAY BOTH LIFTS US UP AND WRINGS US OUT.”
-Vulture
PRODUCTION PHOTOS
CAST & ARTISTS
ARTISTS
Playwright MADELEINE GEORGE
Director LILY WOLFF
Scenic Designer STEFAN AZIZI
Costume Designer HARRI HORSLEY
Lighting Designer MADELEINE REID
Sound Designer ROBERT MEEK
Vocal Consultant TERESA ZIMMERMANN
Movement / Intimacy Director SKYE BRONFENBRENNER
Technical Director BRANDON CHO
Assistant Scenic Designer JAMI AGUIRRE
Assistant Stage Manager EMMA BACON
Assistant Director TRIN HO
Production Stage Manager JESSICA CASANOVA
CAST
KASI LOVE Diane
JEANEE HARRIS Carol
CHELSEA RYAN MCCURDY Pam
JASMINE RENEE THOMAS Renee
ELIZABETH MARSHALL BLACK Beth
Madeleine George, Playwright
RUNNING TIME
90 minutes, no intermission
CONTENT ADVISORY
We do not offer advisories about subject matter, as sensitivities vary from person to person. If you have any questions about content, age-appropriateness or stage effects (such as strobe lights or theatrical fog) that might have a bearing on patron comfort, please contact info@recroomhtx.com.
