Tornados, Hamlet, and Disney World aren t three things you d normally group together.
For acclaimed Lauren Gunderson, it all makes sense. Though perhaps for Angela, the woman at the center of Gunderson s
Natural Shocks, the threads may be straining.
If Gunderson sounds like a familiar name to you, it s no coincidence. In 2020, Dramashop presented one of her best-known works,
Silent Sky as an innovative production in the early weeks of the pandemic. Nationally, Gunderson also just so happens to be America s most popular living playwright.
Written in 2018,
Natural Shocks is a one-woman show that tells the story of Angela, a woman waiting out a tornado in her basement. Dramashops s production of