A NEW PLAY BY STEPHEN FOGLIA

 THE maenads 

WORLD PREMIERE FALL 2025

Coming to

 The Tank 

September 18 - October 12, 2025

Part of The Tank’s Core Production Series

More details coming soon.

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PRAISE FOR THE MAENADS

  • Doug Wright

    Doug Wright

    Playwright, Winner of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize for Drama, I Am My Own Wife

    “A deeply bizarre and altogether quite wonderful new play. It's corrosively funny, and has a compelling, hypnotic pull [and] an internal, wholly idiosyncratic logic all its own. In sending up a ‘men's retreat’ - reminiscent of the Iron John craze of the 90's - [The Maenads] offers a wryly hilarious take on male fears, misperceptions, and presumptions about what it means to be female. And (for a gay reader, at least) it’s weirdly homoerotic too.”Description goes here

  • Alix Sobler

    Playwright, Winner of the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, Sheltered

    “An unhinged and hilarious portrait of male floundering with a tender heart.”

  • Andy Boyd

    Playwright, Room Room Room, Occupy Prescott, Trade Federation

    The Maenads is a brilliant, disturbing play about the yearning for femininity among otherwise cis-het dudes. But what, actually, is femininity? Is it beauty, sex, abandon? Is it about emotional release and non-competitive community? Or is it another game for men to play, another way to dominate and humiliate your so-called friends? This is a play about men who want to be women but don't know how. It might make you trans. It's insane it was written by a cis man. It's my favorite play of the past five years.”

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