A GOOD GIRL DOESN'T
a comedy that takes you from here to paternity
written and performed by Abby Stokes
PERFORMANCE DATES: Sept. 7, 15 (matinee), 17, 18, 19
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Abby's birth is the result of her parents swinging through the 1960s with wild key parties, martinis, and Manhattans.
Their frolics leave Abby with one burning question: Who is her biological father? Too many possibilities for Mom to be certain. Dad deflects the subject with biting humor. Can a DNA paternity test provide the answer? "Let's review the men my mother had sex with in the last days of 1961 ... the ones we know about." Warning: Sexual content and lots of #@!%* swearing. |
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The conception of A GOOD GIRL DOESN'T is not in question. It happened in a writing workshop with Gretchen Cryer. (No Manhattans or key parties were involved!) After a long birthing process A GOOD GIRL DOESN'T premiered in Manhattan at the 8th annual United Solo Festival with three sold out performances and was awarded Best Direction of a Play. A GOOD GIRL DOESN'T was an Official Selection at The ONE Festival, in NYC, with three performances. In 2019 A GOOD GIRL DOESN'T made its way across the pond performed to Berlin, Germany and across the country as an Official Selection at The Whitefire Theatre Solofest in Los Angeles to a full house.
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ABBY STOKES (Writer/Performer) is best-selling author of "Is This Thing On?” - A Friendly Guide to Everything Digital for Newbies, Technophobes, and the Kicking & Screaming and tours the country as a public speaker helping more than 300,000 Digital Immigrants (those over 40 who were not born with a keyboard or a mouse in their hand) cross the digital divide. Abby’s also the author of Dinner Party Disasters: True Stories of Culinary Catastrophe. She has taught courses at both Cooper Union and NYU. A thousand years ago Abby studied theatre at the O’Neill Theatre Center, performed off-off Broadway as well as in comedy clubs, did extra work in film and television, industrials, and voiceovers. She founded and was Artistic Director of an improvisation company – At A Moment’s Notice. A writing class, taught by Gretchen Cryer, brought Abby full circle back to her theatre roots now as performer and writer. AbbyStokes.com
What audiences have been saying:
"So brave, funny, brutally honest and disturbing, sometimes simultaneously."
"Witty, sad, shocking and filled with wisdom."
"Both laugh-out-loud funny and poignant."
"Fantastic, fearless performance."
"Incredibly compelling, deeply moving, and inspiring."
"Your show was fantastic - so good that I woke up thinking about it."
"So brave, funny, brutally honest and disturbing, sometimes simultaneously."
"Witty, sad, shocking and filled with wisdom."
"Both laugh-out-loud funny and poignant."
"Fantastic, fearless performance."
"Incredibly compelling, deeply moving, and inspiring."
"Your show was fantastic - so good that I woke up thinking about it."
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