cover photo by Jouko Keski-Santii
BEAUTIFUL BODIES
Laura Shaine Cunningham
“Cunningham displays a knack for smart,
catty chatter...
...the sophisticated and often funny repartee contribute to the
play’s swiftness and appeal. The parts very nearly play themselves, needing only
some seasoned pros to add the right dash of pepper and spice.”
Variety
“It’s a juicy, jazzy party, with a bottomless punch bowl of wit.”
Bob Campbell, The Star-Ledger
“So Claire is pregnant, and they all know that, but none of her
five friends have spoken to her in six months. This is her baby shower. The six
guests met in college and are the women of playwright Laura Cunningham’s
engaging and witty dramatic comedy BEAUTIFUL BODIES....
Real women—and the men in their lives—certainly talk about this
stuff and playwright Laura Shaine Cunningham isn’t afraid to write it down. She
gives her characters honest lines, lines that reveal the `secret life’, the
essence of our most intimate moments.”
Dufflyn Lammers, Savannah Morning News
“Playwright Laura Cunningham’s razor-sharp ear for dialogue carries
the whole thing along like a breeze. Segues from the banal into the profound are
natural, and the emotional tenor never wavers. Cunningham’s ability to reveal
characters’ innermost insecurities via
their reactions to hors d’oeuvres recalls the intense party sequences in works
by British stage and screenwriter/director Mike Leigh....
Cunningham also shares with Leigh an adroit sense of social cruelty
and does a wonderful job of illustrating women’s penchant for both attacking and
protecting each other’s weaknesses.”
Ada Calhoun, The Austin Chronicle