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Cardboard Piano

  • Hansol Jung
  • Full Length Play, Drama, 1990s, New Millennium/21st Century
  • 2M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573705717

"Haunting [...] authentic [...] Jung's characters never offer clear answers to what is to be done when hearts and lives are broken from violence and denunciation, but this promising playwright's story suggests a power in facing the damage done and picking up the pieces to inform each step."

Lousiville Courier-Journal

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 105 minutes

  • Time Period: 1990s, New Millennium/21st Century
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Gun Shots, Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
Northern Uganda on the eve of the millennium: The daughter of American missionaries and a local teenage girl steal into a darkened church to seal their love in a secret, makeshift wedding ceremony. But when the surrounding war zone encroaches on their fragile union, they cannot escape its reach.

Confronting the religious and cultural roots of intolerance, Cardboard Piano explores violence and its aftermath, as well as the human capacity for hatred, forgiveness, and love.
REVIEWS:

"Haunting [...] authentic [...] Jung's characters never offer clear answers to what is to be done when hearts and lives are broken from violence and denunciation, but this promising playwright's story suggests a power in facing the damage done and picking up the pieces to inform each step forward."

 Louisville Courier-Journal

"The action is grounded in the personal but is looking hard at current events in Uganda [...] It's a delicate balance, and Jung walks the tightrope with skill and grace. The characters are well drawn and meaty, and their interpersonal conflict is engaging. But Jung leaves herself plenty of room for questions and accusations that reach far beyond the borders of Uganda."

 Louisville Insider

Premiere Production: Cardboard Piano premiered as part of the Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Louisville, KY in March 2016 under the direction of Leigh Silverman.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible)

  • CHRIS - 16 in Part I, age 30 in Part II. Any ethnicity, American.
    ADIEL - 16, Acholi, Ugandan.
    PIKA - 13, Acholi, nationality unspecified.
    SOLDIER - Early 20's,Acholi, nationality unspecified.
    PAUL - 27, Acholi, Ugandan, played by Soldier from Part I.
    RUTH - Late 20's, Bugandan, Ugandan, played by Adiel from Part I.
    FRANCIS - Late teens to early 20's, Acholi, Ugandan. Played by Pika from Part I.

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    Northern Uganda on the eve of the millennium: The daughter of American missionaries and a local teenage girl steal into a darkened church to seal their love in a secret, makeshift wedding ceremony. But when the surrounding war zone encroaches on their fragile union, they cannot escape its reach.

    Confronting the religious and cultural roots of intolerance, Cardboard Piano explores violence and its aftermath, as well as the human capacity for hatred, forgiveness, and love.

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