A&D NEWS

April 2, 2010

Phoebe Gloeckner’s “Diary of a Teenage Girl” Premieres

A stage production based on A&D Assistant Professor Phoebe Gloeckner’s 2002 novel, “The Diary of A Teenage Girl”, recently premiered in New York and was reviewed in the New York Times:

“The Diary of a Teenage Girl,” the compelling 2002 novel in words and comics by Phoebe Gloeckner, stings with truth, though its author calls it fiction. But Minnie Goetze, its 15-year-old narrator, looks a lot like a young Ms. Gloeckner, and like her was raised in Philadelphia and San Francisco.

Now “Diary” — an account of Minnie’s largely unsupervised adolescence in the Bay Area, drifting through its druggy, erotic morass in the ’70s and agonizing through a sexual entanglement with her mother’s boyfriend — has been reverently adapted by Marielle Heller, who also stars. The stage version does not — and cannot — encompass all of the details in the book, but the production, at 3LD Art & Technology Center, laudably approaches its power.

- Andy Webster, New York Times Theater Review

http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/theater/reviews/01teenage.html

More Reviews:
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2010/03/im-better-than-you-you-son-of-a-bitch-a-review-of-the-diary-of-a-teenage-girl-the-play/
http://culturebot.org/2010/03/28/diary-of-a-teenage-girl-at-3ld/
http://www.backstage.com/bso/reviews-ny-theatre-off-off-broadway/the-diary-of-a-teenage-girl-1004079223.story
http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=diar9846
http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-03-30/theater/the-diary-of-a-teenage-girl-goes-multimedia-at-3ld/

For more information on the play, including preview video clips,  please see The Diary of a Teenage Girl.