Thirteen year old Jace's family fell apart when her brother died last year, and now she desperately tries to escape her father by persuading a reclusive thirty-one year old Christmas tree salesman to help her kidnap her hissing mother from the insane asylum.

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Awarded the Roger L. Stevens Award by the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays

 

PEN West Literary Award Finalist

 

Production History:

The Antrobus Group, New York City, director Dan Oliverio

World Premiere, Antrobus Productions, directed by Dan Oliverio

 

Development:

The Road Theatre Company, Los Angeles

 

Honors:

Excerpted in Monologues for Women by Women

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Playwright Jennifer Maisel refuses to deliver the standard sappy movie-of-the-week study of a benighted oppressed person in her wonderful new play. Instead Ms. Maisel, addresses the complexity of sexual abuse by ironically examining its ripple effect. ...Maisel is shaping up as a sort of David Lynch with estrogen. Just imagine what she'll do next...

The New York Law Journal, Rebecca L. Ford

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"Tell me a story." pleads the 13-year-old spotlit in the darkness in her ruffled nightgown. "I'm getting hard," pants her father in a parallel spotlight, moaning to her soft skin, her tits. Behind them, a woodchopper's ax falls in rhythmic crescendo. Blackout. The scene's a stunner and one of many in Jennifer Maisel's Mad Love.

The Village Voice

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