Synopsis
Nice Girl
$13
Published by Dramatists Play Service
1 Male 3 Female
In suburban Massachusetts in 1984, thirty-seven-year-old Josephine Rosen has a dead-end job, still lives with her mother, and has settled into the uncomfortable comfort of an unintended spinsterhood
But when a chance flirtation with an old classmate and a new friendship at work give her hope for the possibility of change, she dusts off the Jane Fonda tapes and begins to take tentative steps towards a new life
A play about the tragedy and joy of figuring out who you are and letting go of who you were supposed to be
REVIEWS
"Nice Girl presents a slice of middle-class life with unpatronizing honesty and simplicity And while the final image is a hopeful one, Ms Ross wisely avoids the kind of pat or sentimental ending that would spoil the play's mood of ambivalence, not to mention its truthfulness" ~ NY Times
" ... this gentle, old-fashioned heart-tugger casts an insistent spell" ~ NY Daily News
"Absorbing Josephine is sympathetic but not maudlin, and Ross is refreshingly unhurried in depicting her plight" ~Time Out NY
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