A GOOD GIRL DOESN'T
a comedy that takes you from here to paternity
written and performed by Abby Stokes
May 4th and May 7th at 8pm, May 8th at 5pm, May 15th at 5pm, May 21st at 2pm
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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. 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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