Etta Jenks
by Marlane Gomard Meyer

A young woman chases her dreams to sun-soaked LA to become a movie star, but soon the shadows of this city rear up to claim her. Etta aspires to succeed but is sucked down into the porn industry, a world which seduces and abuses, and can illuminate your name in dirty neon.

A dark comic thriller about sex and survival.

WHen.

Finborough Theatre, London
2nd - 26th February 2005

The Cast
Daniela Nardini - Etta
Clarke Peters - Spencer
Glenn Conroy - Ben
Cristina Gavin - Dolly
Mido Hamada - Burt/Sherman/Max
Siobhán Hewlett - Kitty/Shelly
Chris O’Dowd - Clyde/the Director/Dwight/Alex
Indra Ové - Sheri
Tom Sangster - James
with Laura Freeman, Maggie Service and John Hollingworth

The Creative Team
Ché Walker - Director
Ana Jebens - Set Design
Alex Wardle - Lighting Design
Matt Downing - Sound Design
Annie Curtis-Jones - Costume Design
Vanessa Mobiglia - Assistant Director

Marlane Gomard Meyer - Playwright
Plays include ETTA JENKS, KINGFISH, THE GEOGRAPHY OF LUCK, MOE'S LUCKY SEVEN, WHY THINGS BURN, THE CHEMISTRY OF CHANGE and THE MYSTERY OF ATTRACTION. She's been produced at The Public Theatre, The Royal Court Theatre in London, South Coast Repertory, The Los Angeles Actor's Theater, The Magic Theater, Playwright's Horizons, Steppenwolf Theater, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Humana Festival at the Actor's Theater of Louisville, Trinity Repertory, The Empty Space, The Worth Street Theater and other regional theaters and colleges. Awards include The Susan Smyth Blackburn Prize, the Joseph Kesselring award, and the Pen Center USA Award for Drama. She is currently a writer/producer for LAW AND ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT. She makes her home in New York City.

'Marlane Gomard Meyer's 90-minute play is refreshingly free from moralising. At its best, her writing has teeth, growling with danger and glittering with witty diaolgue. Etta is thrown in at the deep end, and to avoid sinking, she has to splash about with the sharks - designer Ana Jeben's roughly painted but evocative set shows the Pacific Ocean full of fins and boiling with blood.'
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