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Dad Don't Read This
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Description
dad
please
i am asking you nicely
go away
this play
is not
for you
NY Times Critics' Pick
In suburban Central Ohio, four girls meet weekly for a sleepover. They talk and sleep and play The Sims, a computer game that simulates real life, on a laptop. They gossip, snack, and attempt to get drunk. They strive to fulfill their needs, struggle to understand the relationship between doing and being seen, and begin to suspect they don't have a whole lot of agency.
Wait, nevermind; that's The Sims.
Eliya Smith's Dad Don't Read This is a coming-of-age play about the people who know you before you know anything. A love letter to adolescence and to teenage friendship, the play was published following a sold out 2026 summer premiere in New York City.
Accessibility Information
Additional accessibility information
- PDF/UA-2, 1.4
- accessibility@bloomsbury.com
Hazards
The publication contains no hazards
Support for non-visual reading
Has alternative text descriptions for images
Navigation
- Page list to go to pages from the print source version
- Elements such as headings, tables, etc for structured navigation
- All or substantially all textual matter is arranged in a single logical reading order
Product details
| Published | 10 Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 96 |
| ISBN | 9781350678972 |
| Imprint | Methuen Drama |
| Series | Modern Plays |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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One of my top shows of the season… Dad Don't Read This is rambunctious and delightfully, kinetically familiar.
Helen Shaw, New York Times
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Smith's naturalistic dramatic voice is a still-sticky adolescent mixture of wild feeling and zoned-out alienation.
Helen Shaw, New York Times
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Unsettling, hilarious, oddly serene… a burst of frenetic energy.
Vulture
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Dad Don't Read This will shred you into little tiny pieces if you ever were, ever raised, or ever loved, a sixteen-year-old girl in suburbia.
Exeunt
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A beautiful simulation of teen girlhood … gets to the heart of these inscrutable, hilarious, infuriating creatures who move through the world yelling look at me! and don't look at me! in the same breath.
Theatermania
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highly entertaining… Smith impresses as a playwright ready to break through
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