The Pliant Girls at Cultural Arts Center

The Pliant Girls

Cultural Arts Center
7995 Georgia Avenue Silver Spring

An adaptation of Aeschylus' The Suppliants, this play tells the story of fifty sisters seeking protection after murdering the fifty brothers they would have been forced to marry. Combining humor, heart, and a healthy dose of rage, The Pliant Girls is a sharply insightful exploration of love, sisterhood, and reclaiming the power to make your own choices.

Thru - Nov 9, 2024

Thursdays: 8:00pm

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 8:00pm

Sundays: 2:00pm

Show Type: Comedy

www.nusass.com/pliant

The Pliant Girls Reviews

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DC Theater Arts - Recommended

"...For me, the prodding question as I left the theater was “Where do you find your sisterhood, your support, your people? And, what have you done to effect necessary change for a better future?” Whatever questions The Pliant Girls causes you to ponder, you likely won’t walk out of the theater without thought-provoking ideas to discuss."

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- Lisa Traige

Washington City Paper - Recommended

"...People can be like empty bottles, holding whatever messages they receive. Repeated enough, those messages—you’re pretty, you’re easy, you’re disposable—fill up the inside, leaving no room for anything new. That is, until you break the bottle. This metaphor is at the center of The Pliant Girls, a Greek-ish drama receiving a nimble and provocative production by Theatre Prometheus in association with Nu Sass Productions through Nov. 9."

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- Chad Decter

BroadwayWorld - Recommended

"...The Pliant Girls does share plot elements with Aeschylus' The Suppliants, which concerned a group of Greek women trying to avoid being forced into marriage. But because the play was the first in a trilogy of which the second two plays have been lost, Aeschylus' outcome is not fully known. Brown does pick up where Aeschylus left his Suppliants, using some elements of Greek mythology and extant fragments from which scholars have learned about the projected contents of the two missing plays. But the sexist-filled ethos that we here in the 21st century partially share with the 5th century BC just seems a little shopworn."

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- Mary Lincer

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