Red Orchid Theatre's 'Becky Shaw' explores fallout of bad date gone bad
A blind date goes bad, catastrophically bad, in Gina Gionfriddo's play "Becky Shaw." It's a concept many can identify with, but the playwright takes it one step further, moving into psychological thriller territory. Gionfriddo says the concept was born out of the image of a woman set up for a date who overdresses, putting herself in a situation from which she never recovers. "I was interested in the scenario of a dis…