MAY 12–21, 2017 @ The Kirk Douglas Theatre as part of Center Theatre Group’s “Block Party”
Written by Ruby Rae Spiegel and directed by Alana Dietze, Echo Theater Company’s Dry Land is a haunting play about female friendship and an abortion that takes place in the locker room of a central Florida high school. Written when Spiegel was just 21 years old and still an undergraduate at Yale, the play is a deeply truthful portrait of the fears, hopes and bonds of teenage girls—as gut-wrenching as it is funny. In his New York Times “critic’s pick” review, Ben Brantley called Dry Land tender, caustic, funny and harrowing, often all at the same time