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Stephen Adly Guirgis

The Motherf**ker with the Hat

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“By far the most accomplished and affecting work from the gifted Mr. Guirgis, a prolific and erratic chronicler of marginal lives.”—The New York Times
“The lifeblood of Guirgis's dialogue is the most expressive cursing since Shakespeare.”—The Guardian
As an expert in the art of blurring lines, Stephen Adly Guirgis is known for projects that are at once comically poignant and dramatically raucous. Following the recently rehabilitated drug dealer Jackie, trying to improve his life after being paroled, The Motherfucker with the Hat (Guirgis's first on Broadway) examines the fragile line between ignited passions and the struggle to remain clean in the underbelly of New York City. With expressive dialogue and a captivating story, Guirgis's widely-acclaimed play delves into the challenges of pride, self-transformation, and the intricacies of love in a lower-class world. This volume also includes the acclaimed one-act play Dominica: The Fat Ugly Ho.
Stephen Adly Guirgis's other plays include Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, Our Lady of 121st Street, In Arabia We'd All Be Kings, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, The Little Flower of East Orange, Den of Thieves, and Race Religion Politics. His play Between Riverside and Crazy won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2015. He is a former co-artistic director of LABryinth Theater Company. He received the Yale Wyndham-Campbell Prize, a PEN/Laura Pels Award, a Whiting Award and a fellowship from TCG in 2004.
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64 printed pages
Original publication
2017
Publication year
2017
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    From beginning to end, Guirgis is able to grip a reader with his beautiful use of language, riveting storylines, and amazingly in-depth characters. No bullshit.. This is a really good play.

Quotes

  • Gabriel CiFuenteshas quoted6 years ago
    JACKIE: —Yeah, but his mother was a whore, and her boyfriend was a violent coke fiend, plus Chuchi’s real father liked fucking Little Chuchi in his ass whenever he paid the occasional visit, so, basically, Chuchi grew up to be a maniac. A killer at fourteen. I mean, we would literally sprint—not run—fuckin’ sprint if we saw his ass within a four-block radius. But what I didn’t know at the time was that Chuchi remembered about what my moms did for him, so, the funny thing is: he fuckin’ loved me. And I never knew it till I was like eighteen ’cuz I was always running. But ever since, it don’t matter what, he could be in the middle of a fuckin’ armed robbery, and if he saw me coming down the block, he’d be like, “Yo, Jackie O, what do you need.” It’s crazy. I mean, Chuchi once ripped a guy’s face off. Like actually peeled it off—it was in the Post. And yet he cried at my mom’s funeral like a baby. He didn’t wanna be a pallbearer—nah—he wanted to carry her
  • Lorenzo Eduardohas quoted6 years ago
    SCENE 4
    The next day. Early evening. Veronica and Jackie’s apartment. Veronica is in the living room getting dressed, smoking a joint, and talking to someone in the bathroom.
    VERONICA
    : I can’t do this no more, okay?! It’s over for real! So please don’t gimme no static about it, ’cuz I’ll wrap a fuckin’ bedsheet ’round my head and go straight up bin Laden on you—I’ll fuckin’ destroy you! And I don’t wanna do that, but if you ever fuckin’ come back here again, that’s how it’s gonna be! And I’m being nice about this ’cuz it ain’t like we had nothin’, it was something. It was messed up, and it messed me up, and basically I’m ready to hurl myself off a building any fuckin’ minute now, but I’m not saying what we had was nothin’ because it wasn’t nothin’, but now it’s over, so leggo my Eggo and have a nice life nowhere the fuck near me, okay?! Don’t say good-bye. Just go . . .
    (A man emerges from the bathroom. It’s Ralph. Naked.)
    RALPH D
    : . . . You know that woman sponsor he had when he first got out? He fucked her.
    (Beat.)
    VERONICA
    : I know.
    RALPH D
    : Yeah. He told me after being with her, physi
  • Lorenzo Eduardohas quoted6 years ago
    The next day. Early evening. Veronica and Jackie’s apartment. Veronica is in the living room getting dressed, smoking a joint, and talking to someone in the bathroom.
    VERONICA
    : I can’t do this no more, okay?! It’s over for real! So please don’t gimme no static about it, ’cuz I’ll wrap a fuckin’ bedsheet ’round my head and go straight up bin Laden on you—I’ll fuckin’ destroy you! And I don’t wanna do that, but if you ever fuckin’ come back here again, that’s how it’s gonna be! And I’m being nice about this ’cuz it ain’t like we had nothin’, it was something. It was messed up, and it messed me up, and basically I’m ready to hurl myself off a building any fuckin’ minute now, but I’m not saying what we had was nothin’ because it wasn’t nothin’, but now it’s

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