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THE STORY
At fifteen years old, Kelechi left Nigeria for the United States, leaving her family and her culture behind. Fifteen years later, she is now a best-selling novelist and must return to Nigeria to care for her ailing father. Before she can say goodbye, however, she must relearn the traditions she had wiped from her memory. Kelechi’s homecoming soon becomes a head-on collision with her culture, trauma, family history, and the love of those who never forgot her. Purchase Script HERE Preview Script HERE |
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THE STORY
Paulina, the reigning queen bee at Ghana’s most exclusive boarding school, has her sights set on the Miss Global Universe pageant. But the arrival of Ericka, a new student with undeniable talent and beauty, captures the attention of the pageant recruiter—and Paulina’s hive-minded friends. This buoyant and biting comedy explores the universal similarities (and glaring differences) facing teenage girls across the globe. Purchase Script HERE |
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Here, at the corner of a country that feels both foreign and familiar, three orphaned, stateless youth have built a simple life out of recreation and mischief-making. Their world is rocked as a parade of immodest strangers slowly invade, offering gifts of language, medicine, art, and commerce. As the lure of development blurs their beliefs, life and landscape mutate, threatening their long-held values, community, and humanity. In a comic spectacle to challenge the pretense of altruism and civilization, Frontieres Sans Frontieres asks what happens when generosity looks a lot like self-interest? How to comprehend when the promise of language matures to the tyranny of words? Who wins and who loses in a war to hold on to the people and places we love? Purchase Script HERE Preview Script HERE |
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A woman tries to feed her husband a fried drumstick. Dragons roam a flat earth. The last Black man in the whole entire world dies again. And again. Careening through memory and language, Parks explores and explodes archetypes of Black America with piercing insight and raucous comedy. A riotous theatrical event, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World hums with the heartbeat of improvisational jazz. Purchase Script HERE Preview Script HERE |
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Combining West African folklore and contemporary American culture, If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must be a Muhfucka follows four teenage girls as they grapple with societal definitions of beauty. In the fictional setting of Affreakah-Amirrorkah, the four young women – Kaya, Massassi, Adama and Akim – are given an opportunity to live in a society where their individual beauty can reign supreme. But this opportunity comes at a dangerous cost. Tori Sampson's hilariously provocative play doesn’t ask the question "How much is beauty worth?" but rather, "Why are so many willing to pay its price?" Purchase Script HERE |
Humana Festival 2014: The Complete Plays
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Humana Festival 2014: The Complete Plays brings together all nine scripts from the 2014 Humana Festival of New American Plays, the 38th cycle of world premiere productions staged at Actors Theatre of Louisville. This unique compilation features a remarkable array of work by some of the most exciting voices in the American theatre, from the crisis of faith that ripples through a church after its pastor makes a startling announcement (The Christians), to the tremendous loss felt after a young man is killed in a senseless act of violence in his inner city neighborhood (brownsville song [b-side for tray]), to the tricky shifts in dynamics that occur in a friendship and a marriage when sudden wealth comes into play (Partners). This imaginative and daring collection of plays is a must-have for anyone seeking current, creative, and ambitious theater.
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