Now it's landed in South Florida, coinciding with the recent allegations of Tarantino muse Uma Thurman of sexual assault by Harvey Weinstein and of sadistic treatment by Tarantino, who Thurman says caused injuries to her neck and knees when he forced her to drive a dangerously broken car rather than use a stunt double. White, and has had numerous productions in cities such as Seattle, Las Vegas, and Portland, Oregon, before returning as a main-stage production in Chino. Soerensen has alternated playing a few of the lead roles and has directed a few iterations. The play opened to much acclaim at Blue Room Theatre in Chino in 2009, with Soerensen playing Ms. They all start cursing - throwing F-bombs - and saying all kinds of vulgar things from the beginning of the play, and the audience gets more and more comfortable and eventually loves it.” “It’s not written for women to sit and look pretty. “It’s not meant for the actors to play the parts like they’re Steve Buscemi in a dress,” Soerensen jokes, referencing the actor who played Mr. When she did, she dug in, spending hours shaping the nonlinear narrative, preserving the rhythmic dialogue, changing all the pronouns, and breathing life into roles that, she says, women are rarely asked to inhabit. It took more than a decade for Soerensen to get fed up with some of the parts she and the actresses she knew were being offered and decided to give playwriting a shot. That’s when she thought of adapting the iconic script for the stage. “When I saw the film version of Reservoir Dogs, I thought, This is cool, but why don’t women ever get to play roles like this?” “I grew up in Chino,, and ended up at Pasadena’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts,” says Soerensen, an actor, playwright, and roller-derby skater. Erika Soerensen’s Reservoir Dolls, presented by the Outré Theatre Company at the Pompano Beach Cultural Center, flips the script in an all-female stage adaption of Quentin Tarantino’s 1992 testosterone-driven heist film, Reservoir Dogs. As Hollywood continues to unpack more casualties from the #MeToo movement, women are fighting back by creating the kind of work they want to see and the roles they want to play.