Girls Act Out, a new play by the playwright, the poet, the incomparable Taylor Steele, tells the story of five highly competitive teenage girls on the verge of their senior year. During one comically premeditated drunken night, Petra, Squish, Claire, Thea, and Alice are forced to face their differences, their misaligned passions, and the ways in which they relate (or can’t) to one another. Girls Act Out de- and re-constructs narrative storytelling as a study of the ways girls — consciously or not — perform for each other, confronting questions of race, sexuality, class, relationships and the ever-daunting task of growing up.

hawkhouse has been working with Taylor Steele to develop this play over the last year. They produced the first presentation of Girls Act Out at the Center at West Park.