Fuckin’ Ruthie

The woman American Buffalo left offstage
is ready to tell her side of the story.

NEW PLAY | IN DEVELOPMENT

Shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize

Image by Richard Sandler.

Ruthie is a card sharp with a score to settle. With her lover Grace beside her, she launches a double-crossing heist aimed at the men back at the pawn shop. Then Ignacio “Iggy” Suarez, a two-bit hustler with his own agenda, horns in on the scheme and threatens to turn Ruthie’s revenge into something much messier.

David Mamet’s American Buffalo opens with Teach furious at Ruthie, the unseen woman who beat him at poker the night before. Fuckin’ Ruthie brings her onstage and turns the lens on that famously male world -- a darkly comic, queer-feminist answer from the woman who never got to tell her side of the story.