The Gulf (play)

The Gulf is a play by American playwright Audrey Cefaly. It is a recipient of the 2017 Lambda Literary Award for Drama and the 2016 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award. The play was adapted from a one-act version, which won the 40th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival (2015). The play takes place on a fishing boat in the author's home state of Alabama.

Production highlights
London Premiere - April 2018 (Tristan Bates Theatre) Directed by Matthew Gould Featuring Louisa Lytton and Anna Acton

Australian Premiere - August 2017 (Camperdown, NSW) Directed by Melissa Lethbridge Featuring Diana Popovska and Brenna Harding

World Premiere - September 2016 Signature Theatre (Arlington, VA) Directed by Joe Calarco.

Synopsis
The divide between Kendra and Betty mimics the very world that devours them: a vast and polarizing abyss. On a quiet summer evening, somewhere down in the Alabama Delta, Kendra and Betty troll the flats looking for red fish. After Betty begins diagnosing Kendra’s dead-end life with career picks from What Color is Your Parachute, their routine fishing excursion takes a violent turn.

Characters

 * Kendra: A loner. Scrappy, dark, brutish and volatile.
 * Betty: An optimist. A thinker. Restless and tender Hearted.

Awards

 * Winner: 2017 Lambda Literary Award for Drama
 * Nominated: 2017 Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play or Musical (Helen Hayes)
 * Recipient of the 2016 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award
 * Winner of the 2015 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival.

Publications

 * Full-Length (Samuel French)
 * One-Act:
 * Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 40th Series (Samuel French)
 * Love is a Blue Tick Hound (Samuel French)
 * Best American Short Plays 2014-2015 (Hal Leonard Corporation)