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<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)><em>Busted Open</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> a play by Ryan Stevens explores the dynamics of a women's wrestling organization in the late 20th century. With a richly developed cast of characters Stevens throws traditional gender roles and social expectations to the wind using the interaction between women wrestlers as a tool to mine the cultural depths of any workplace.</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> <em>Busted Open</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> demonstrates that a women's wrestling organization is no different from a law firm a ballet company or the average office environment on Main Street USA when it comes to how people cope with the constant pressure to achieve and stand out while doing so.</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> Busted Open</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> by Ryan Stevens is the fifth winning play in the Jasper Project's Play Right Series. It was developed over the summer of 2025 and performed as a staged reading on September 14 2025 at the Columbia Music Festival Association in Columbia South Carolina.</span></p>