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 (2015). The play takes place on a fishing boat in the author's home state of Alabama. [2]
London Premiere - April 2018 (Tristan Bates Theatre) [3]
Directed by Matthew Gould
Featuring Louisa Lytton and Anna Acton
Australian Premiere - August 2017 (Camperdown, NSW) [4]
Directed by Melissa Lethbridge
Featuring Diana Popovska and Brenna Harding
World Premiere - September 2016
Signature Theatre (Arlington, VA)
Directed by Joe Calarco. [5]
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. [6]