Girls on a dirt pile

November-December 2019
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
World Premiere
by Susan McCully

January 2020
Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival 52
Distinguished Achievement in Directing

In keeping with our tradition of producing New Plays in New Ways, Girls on A Dirt Pile is a provocative premiere that tackles events ripped-from-the-headlines.  The myth of Demeter and Persephone is a frame on which McCully hangs the tough questions:  what happens to all the girls violated by #metoo villians?  Can they rise up against their oppressors?  Are we doomed to repeat the sins of misogyny, or is liberation and parity possible?  Equal parts low comedy and dystopian drama,  McCully sends-up patriarchy with her trademark irony and wit.