Thinking Cap Theatre at The Vanguard Presents the Southeastern Premiere of COLLECTIVE RAGE

Meet Betty, Betty, Betty, Betty, and Betty...Betty is rich; Betty is lonely; Betty's busy working on her truck; Betty wants to talk about love, but Betty needs to hit something. Thinking Cap Theatre's 7th Season continues with the Southeastern Premiere of COLLECTIVE RAGE: A Play in Five Betties, a timely, pointed, and playful investigation of gender. Not since Eve Ensler has a playwright had such profound (and hilarious!) thoughts to share about women, stereotypes, relationships, and the female anatomy!

Inspired in part by Max Fleischer's iconic, sexualized animation, Betty Boop, COLLECTIVE RAGE presents, explores, and explodes the legacy of female stereotypes that women today have inherited--Don't worry, men will have their moment in September when Thinking Cap Theatre stages Young Jean Lee's acclaimed dramedy, Straight White Men.

In the wake of the POTUS claiming to have grabbed a woman by the p****, and women marching on Washington wearing pussy caps, the P-word, that's right PUSSY, has gotten more play in the media and on the streets than it ever has before. Silverman's COLLECTIVE RAGE emboldens women to examine their hearts and their parts and gives patriarchy a knockout punch!

Director Nicole Stodard is excited to work again with five of South Florida's best actresses, all of whom have appeared in Thinking Cap Theatre shows before. The Betties will be portrayed by Ann Marie Olson (ALWAYS..PATSY CLINE), Betsy Graver (OR,), Vanessa Elise (WAITING FOR WAITING FOR GODOT), Gretchen Porro (MUD, A PUBLIC READING OF AN UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY ABOUT THE DEATH OF Walt Disney, THE REALISTIC JONESES), and Carey Hart (THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, CHURCH, THE ROVER).

About Playwright Jen Silverman:

Jen Silverman's work has been produced in New York by Clubbed Thumb (PHOEBE IN WINTER) and the Playwrights Realm (CRANE STORY), and regionally at Actor's Theatre of Louisville (THE ROOMMATE, Humana 2015; WONDROUS STRANGE, Humana 2016), Yale Rep (THE MOORS), InterAct Theatre in Philadelphia (THE DANGEROUS HOUSE OF PRETTY MBANE, Barrymore Award, Steinberg Award citation). COLLECTIVE RAGE had its east coast premiere at D.C.'s Wooly Mammoth and its west coast premiere at L.A.'s Boston Court.

Silverman is a member of New Dramatists, a Core Writer at the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, and has developed work with the O'Neill, Williamstown, New York Theatre Workshop, Playpenn, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Portland Center Stage, the Cherry Lane Mentor Project, SCR's Pacific Playwrights Festival, The Ground Floor Residency at Berkeley Rep, and the Royal Court in London among other places. Silverman is a two-time MacDowell fellow, recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, the Helen Merrill Fund Award for emerging playwrights, and the Yale Drama Series Award for STILL. She is the 2016-2017 Playwrights of New York (PoNY) Fellow at the Lark. She currently has a two-book deal with Random House for a collection of stories and a novel. Education: Brown, Iowa Playwrights Workshop, Juilliard.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

Friday, May 12 8pm (Preview)

Saturday, May 13 3pm (Preview)

Saturday, May 13 8pm (OPENING NIGHT)

Sunday, May 14 5pm

Wednesday, May 17 8pm

Friday, May 19 8pm

Saturday, May 20 8pm

Sunday, May 21 5pm

Wednesday, May 24 8pm

Friday, May 26 3pm (MATINEE followed by HAPPY HOUR)

Saturday, May 27 8pm

Sunday, May 28 5pm

Wednesday, May 31 8pm

Friday, June 2 8pm

Saturday, June 3 8pm

Sunday, June 4 5pm (CLOSING)

For Tickets, visit www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2922381 OR thinkingcaptheatre.com.