About: Oohrah!

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"Listen. There's nothin goin down over there. Anybody who's over there is just trainin' the new police. Playin' card games, accidentally settin' flares off and lightin' their own pants on fire. It's not a fuckin' video game, it's not Vietnam, it's California, it's Summer camp."

In Fayetteville, North Carolina, sits one of the South's largest military bases. Practically everybody's somebody is over there. Flight Attendant Abby has finally agreed to settle down with her thoroughly unmilitary fiancé. Her sister Sara is thrilled to have her own husband back home once and for all. But when a mysterious Marine shows up on Abby's red-eye flight, all bets on stability are off. Oohrah! asks how we can remain true to ourselves when the pressures of domestic and military expectation threaten all.

"Lacey wrote an essay about you for school, I put it on the fridge. She wants you to take her to the rifle range."

This European premiere of a powerful and unexpected new play marks the London debut of the award-winning new American playwright Bekah Brunstetter, winner of the New York Innovative Theater Award for Best Original Full-Length Play, and twice winner of the Samuel French Short Play Festival. Her work has received acclaim across the United States and has been produced at Boston Theatre Works, the Ohio Theater, The Alliance Theatre and many others. She is director of New Play Development for Working Man’s Clothes Productions, New York City, and works with groups at the Ars Nova, the Playwright’s Center, At Play Productions and the Women’s Project Writer’s Lab. Oohrah! was workshopped at the Ars Nova, New York City, in September 2008, directed by Leigh Silverman. www.bekahbrunstetter.com

Director Georgina Guy is Artistic Director of Grey Light Productions and has directed all the company's shows to date, including BANK and Other Plays (King's Head Theatre), Uncle Barry (Blue Elephant Theatre) and American Voices (Greenwich Playhouse and Blue Elephant Theatre). Assisting work includes Enduring Freedom at the Finborough Theatre. She also works as an Assistant Teacher at RADA. www.greylightproductions.co.uk

Reviews

“In just a few short years, Bekah Brunstetter has emerged as a major voice in Off-Off-Broadway theater.” offoffline.com

“Thoughtful, hilarious and poignant.” Washington Square News

“Remarkable…the ground covered in this new play by Bekah Brunstetter goes way past the expected to rip through the gut while you're laughing… Marvelously perverse humor.” nytheatre.com

"Bekah Brunstetter's use of language is exquisite; her dialogue sings and expresses character with telling detail." Broadway World

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