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Guirgis, a lifelong New Yorker and a properly profane bard of the city, is a wizard at getting language to flow hot, funny, and fastGuirgiss rough-cut gem of a play is rich with revelation and barbed empathy. Alexandra Schwartz,New YorkerStephen Adly Guirgis brings his prodigious gifts for exploring the lives of social outcasts to new heights in this play about the inner workings of a womens halfway house in New York City, where the unmoored residents struggle with addiction, abuse, and mental illness. Between daily therapy sessions, they clash with the staff and each other, form alliances, and fall in love. Harrowing, humorous, and heartbreaking,Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heavenroaringly brings to life the experiences of women who society has tried to shuffle out of sight and out of mind.