Blue Surge Summary
Rebecca Gilman

Everything you need to understand or teach Blue Surge by Rebecca Gilman.

  • Blue Surge Summary & Study Guide
  • 30 Blue Surge Lessons
  • 20 Activities
  • 180 Multiple Choice Questions
  • 60 Short Essay Questions
  • 20 Essay Questions
  • Pre-Made Tests and Quizzes
  • ...and more

Blue Surge Summary

Rebecca Gilman's Blue Surge, first produced in 2001 (and published by Faber and Faber in the same year), was a bit shocking when it first opened to enthusiastic audiences at Chicago's Goodman Theatre. It is, after all, a play about prostitutes, and it utilizes full frontal male nudity in the first scene. However, audience interest in the play stemmed more from the fact that Gilman is a local Chicago playwright, and her plays are...

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Lesson Plan

Blue Surge Lesson Plans contain 153 pages of teaching material, including: