Categories: Comedy, Local. Written by Ruby Hutson-Ellenberg. Directed by Ruby Hutson-Ellenberg.
FROM THE ARTIST:
It’s Adam and Eve’s one year anniversary, but it sure doesn’t sound like it. There’s yelling, contempt, belittling,and trouble with an in-law...so, on second thought, maybe it is a traditional celebration. Eve reaches her breaking point in a fight with Adam and storms off to tend the Garden on her own. Something she’s never done before. Along the way she meets a snake, of course, discovers other women exist, and contemplates eviction from Paradise.
Eve and Her Neighbors uses humor to address serious issues like sexist legislation and entrenched gender hierarchies," said Hunter College in a recent “Headlines” feature about Hutson-Ellenberg, its January 2016 graduate.
Hutson-Ellenberg wrote Eve and Her Neighbors for the Primary Stage’s First Draft playwriting class. She studied humor writing at the 92nd Street Y with Patricia Marx, a New Yorker contributor; interned at the Mint Theater, which finds and produces lost and forgotten but worthwhile plays; and performed in a 2015 production of the Vagina Monologues. At Hunter, this emerging playwright was a Muse Scholar, described by Hunter as having “found her own muse: Adam’s rebellious wife."
