Lowcountry
“A materpiece of millennial rage.” —TheatreMania
Jodi Balfour and Babak Tafti, Atlantic Theater, dir. Jo Bonney. Photo by Ahron R. Foster
Winner of an Atlantic Theater Launch Commission, with a 2025 world premiere directed by Jo Bonney.
Visiting her father in the rural South, a down-and-out actress with a secret seduces a disgraced high-school coach in the midst of legal battle.
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Watch the original cast on New York’s pix11, and meet the creative team.
“Directed with her customary skillfulness by Jo Bonney, Lowcountry is novel in departing from the toxic-male-drama playbook.” —Charles Isherwood, The Wall Street Journal
“There’s a bit of Frankie and Johnny to it, twisted and deformed by more frayed circumstances. I admired Rosebrock’s daring for thrusting her characters into extrema.” —Jackson McHenry, Vulture
“With little use for off-the-rack sentiments, Lowcountry refuses to jerk itself toward a neat resolution. As Alison, the ax-grinding former English teacher in Blue Ridge, might have pointed out, we fallible creatures are always mis-recognizing one another. Lowcountry lives in the quiet chaos of misprision—in what’s half-remembered or misapprehended. True recognition is rare, but when it happens, the effect is transfiguring.” —Rhoda Feng, 4Columns
“An irreverent, horny comedy. I’m impressed all over again by Rosebrock’s flair for writing women who are smart, funny, self-critical, and pissed off. Leaves us breathless.” —David Cote, The Observer
“Rosebrock’s writing, at once piquant and deeply compassionate, encourages empathy even as it titillates. You may even exit the theatre with a new sense of regard or hope for someone you know, and that’s as worthy a gift as any work of fiction could provide.” —Elysa Gardner, The New York Sun
“A masterpiece of millennial rage. Rosebrock speaks up for the American precariat.” -Zachary Stewart, TheatreMania