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WHERE STORMS ARE BORN
Published in THE HEIGHT OF SUMMER: NEW PLAYS FROM WILLIAMSTOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL 2015-2021
Few institutions have as profound an impact on the American theatrical landscape as the Tony Award-winning Williamstown Theatre Festival, located in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
NEW PLAYS FROM WILLIAMSTOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL 2015-2021 provides a sample of the dozens of plays that have been created and/or premiered at the Festival during the Artistic Directorship of Mandy Greenfield. In addition to stories that shine a light into new or underexplored corners of the human condition, these plays frequently feature complex and boundary-pushing central roles for women actors.
These six plays are manifestations of living, American playwrights grappling with and breathing dramatic life into the conflicts and questions at the heart of who we were, who we are, and who we will become. These plays imagine and interrogate pieces of the human experience we are still in the midst of unpacking and understanding.
Script available through Bloomsbury.
THIS BITTER EARTH
Intimate, romantic and devastating, this gripping new play about a young black writer and his white lover, a Black Lives Matter activist, asks, "What is the real cost of standing on the sidelines?"
Script available through Concord Theatricals.
BROADBEND, ARKANSAS
A Black family grapples with decades of inequality, violence, and suppression in the South. Benny, an orderly at a nursing home, delicately balances his role as a caregiver to an ornery white resident who shares a contentious past with his white boss, while at the same time caring for his own family as the fight for equality grips the nation in the midst of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Twenty-seven years later, his daughter, Ruby, struggles to understand an incident of police brutality against her 15-year-old son. This unique musical, spanning three decades and three generations, asks us to contemplate the cycle of violence in this country and how we will find hope and create change against the backdrop of hate that plagues America.
Script available through Stage Rights.
I’M JUST SAYING
Published in THE 24 HOUR VIRAL MONOLOGUES: NEW MONOLOGUES CREATED DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
Since 1995 The 24 HOUR PLAYS have been responding to theatre in the moment. As the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic brought an end to live theatre in the USA and Europe, the company sprang to work to keep the arts alive. Bringing together some of America's most prolific writers for the stage and screen, this unique and contemporary book of monologues collates the responses in dramatic fashion, making for an anthology of work that is timely, moving, irreverent and at its best, transcendent.
Featuring original monologues by writers such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Clare Barron, Hansol Jung, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Christoper Oscar Peña, Jesse Eisenberg and Monique Moses this is a rich collection that can be enjoyed by actors, writers and those looking for creative responses to the global COVID-19 crisis.
With over 50 monologues from the first three weeks of the project, edited by Howard Sherman, this is an important collection that documents an unprecedented moment in history whilst also offering practical resource for actors and performers.
Script available through Bloomsbury.
HOW THE WORLD BECAME SMALL
Published in MONOLOGUES FOR ACTORS OF COLOR: MEN
Actors of colour need the best speeches to demonstrate their skills and hone their craft. Roberta Uno has carefully selected monologues that represent African-American, Native American, Latino, and Asian-American identities. Each monologue comes with an introduction and notes on the characters and stage directions to set the scene for the actor.
This new edition now includes more of the most exciting and accomplished playwrights to have emerged over the 15 years since the MONOLOGUES FOR ACTORS OF COLOR books were first published, from new, cutting edge talent to Pulitzer winners.
Script available through Routledge.
DELICIOUS (!)
Published in 48 HOURS IN… HARLEM 10-MINUTE PLAYS: VOLUME 1
A groundbreaking anthology of inspired ten-minute plays by 12 new and emerging black playwrights, presented by the OBIE Award Winning Harlem9, Inc., presenters of the annual "48 HOURS IN… HARLEM” festival.
Script available through Amazon.
NOT RESENTFUL AT ALL
Published in DECADE: TWENTY NEW PLAYS ABOUT 9/11 AND ITS LEGACY
Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays.
Ten years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times.
Published here are their individual plays, which woven together formed the basis of Decade, an immersive theatrical production from Headlong theatre company, first staged at Commodity Quay, St. Katharine's Dock, London, in 2011.
The writers: Samuel Adamson, Mike Bartlett, Alecky Blythe, Adam Brace, Ben Ellis, Ella Hickson, Samuel D. Hunter, John Logan, Matthew Lopez, Mona Mansour, DC Moore, Abi Morgan, Rory Mullarkey, Janine Nabers, Lynn Nottage, Harrison David Rivers, Simon Schama, Christopher Shinn, Beth Steel, Alexandra Wood.
Script available through Nick Hern Books.