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 in 2015. The play takes place on a fishing boat in the author's home state of Alabama. [2]
The Gulf had its world premiere at September 2016 at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA. [3] The play had subsequent productions in Australia in August 2017 and in London in April 2018, where it featured Louisa Lytton and Anna Acton. [4]
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. [5]