{"id":130892,"date":"2026-05-29T12:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/?post_type=featured-work&p=130892"},"modified":"2026-06-03T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:40:00","slug":"fefu-and-her-friends","status":"publish","type":"featured-work","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/featured-work\/fefu-and-her-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Fefu and Her Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Fefu and Her Friends<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

November 14 – 16, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Book Mar\u00eda Irene Forn\u00e9s
Directed by Gregg Wiggans (CFA\u201925) and Liv King (CFA\u201926)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

One of Off-Broadway\u2019s best-loved plays, originally directed by the author. The audience follows the lives of eight women. For this play, Mar\u00eda Irene Forn\u00e9s received one of her nine Obie awards. (Broadway Play Publishing Inc.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students in the School of Theatre scenography course chose\u00a0Fefu<\/em>\u00a0for the annual Fringe Festival, says play director Liv King. \u201cA core focus of this class is discovering the value, purpose, and reason of a piece: asking ourselves what the play is doing and what we achieve by producing it right now,\u201d King says. \u201cFefu<\/em>\u00a0was written in the 1970s, set in the \u201930s, and was an examination of how advancements in women\u2019s rights had not changed the overwhelming behavioral expectation that comes with living in a patriarchal society. Now, nearly 50 years after the play\u2019s initial conception, our production is doing the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe security and freedom the characters in Fefu<\/em> strive for, that Fornes writes for, are those which are in jeopardy today,\u201d she continues. \u201cLife for women in the United States in 2025, 1977, and 1935 seems to be more similar than different.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fefu and Her Friends <\/em>was presented as part of BU College of Fine Arts’ 2025 Fringe Festival<\/a>. The Boston University Fringe Festival, is a collaboration between the College of Fine Arts School of Music: Opera Institute and School of Theatre. The festival\u2019s mission is to produce new or rarely performed significant works in the opera and theatre repertoire, bringing performances and audiences together in unique theatrical settings. For almost three decades, Fringe Festival at Boston University has celebrated and amplified new work, shown in spare and minimal productions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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29th Annual CFA Fringe Festival Puts Women in the Spotlight<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>\u201cThe security and freedom the characters in Fefu<\/em> strive for, that Fornes writes for, are those which are in jeopardy today,\u201d says director Liv King. \u201cLife for women in the United States in 2025, 1977, and 1935 seems to be more similar than different.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cast<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

LILLIAN DEVLIN
STAR CRANE
AVERY RUSSEY
CHARLOTTE COMPO
AVA CRONIN
KENNEDI YOUNG
JANIE MCRAE
ROSALIND FORE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creative Team<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Written by MAR\u00cdA IRENE FORN\u00c9S<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Directed by GREGG WIGGANS & LIV KING<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scene Designer \u2022 EZINNE EMEH
Costume Designer \u2022 SHIRLEY BRILL
Lighting Designer \u2022 JOE BORSCH
Sound Designer \u2022 JESSIE CHEN
Stage Manager \u2022 IASLYN LEWIS
Production Manager \u2022 SAM NOTO<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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