Alexis Scheer's critically hailed and adroitly constructed drama 'Our Dear Dead Drug Lord,' about the savage secret lives of teenage girls, opens at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.
It’s not easy to make a hardened theater critic squirm in his seat, but I wasn’t sure I had the toughness to withstand the opening scene ofAlexis Scheer’s critically touted play about the savage secret lives of teenage girls.
The horror of the opening scene involves a stray cat concealed in a box. The girls are intending to sacrifice the animal as part of a ritual to initiate Kit , a new club member, who has to prove her murderous mettle.Squeeze , who’s highly allergic to cats, wants the offending creature eliminated as quickly as possible. But Pipe , the club’s president, demands that the ceremony be scrupulously observed.
have been opening our understanding of the wild interior landscapes of young women crossing the threshold into sexual maturity under the shadow of punishing societal strictures and the threat of male abuse.“Our Dear Dead Drug Lord” is acutely mindful of the hierarchy of its adolescent world. Alliance shifts and mutinies occur, but leadership is hard to fake and Pipe is a born boss.
“So what, I’m supposed to vote for the black guy just because he’s black and trendy, and his face is on all the shirts at Urban Outfitters, and just put aside the fact that he’s basically a socialist?” she asks, to the dismay of her friends.
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