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Marie and Rosetta

  • George Brant
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, 1940s / WWII
  • 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573706417

"Mighty music-making [...] when it sings, it really swings."

The New York Times

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: 1940s / WWII
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! Edgerton Foundation New Play Award (2016)
Bringing fierce guitar playing and swing to gospel music, Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a legend in her time and a huge influence on Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, and Ray Charles. Marie and Rosetta chronicles her first rehearsal with a young protégée, Marie Knight, as they prepare to embark on a tour that would establish them as one of the great duos in musical history.
REVIEWS:

"Mighty music-making [...] when it sings, it really swings."

 The New York Times

"It is so rare for a play about the inner lives of black women to center on their intimacy and not world politics or degradation that the very fact of George Brant's loving two-character script is refreshing."

 The New Yorker

"Four Stars [...] heavenly [...] you don't have to be religious to know when you're in the presence of glory."

 Time Out New York

"A spectacular show [...] if much of the world has forgotten Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Marie Knight -- and certainly, a lot of us have -- playwright George Brant makes an intimate yet spectacular case for correcting that wrong."

 Newsday

Premiere Production: Marie and Rosetta premiered at the Atlantic Theater Company in New York City in August 2016 under the direction of Neil Pepe.

Characters

  • Casting: 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Role(s) for Black Actor(s), All Female
  • Chorus Size: No Chorus

  • SISTER ROSETTA THARPE - An African-American woman in her early 30's. Pretty, vivacious, an irrepressible spirit. A mean guitar player with a bluesey voice. Plays spirituals that swing.

  • MARIE KNIGHT - An African-American woman in her early 20s, but looks younger. A more traditional alto gospel singer, plays staid piano. Gorgeous, on her way to being a spiritual star.

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    Bringing fierce guitar playing and swing to gospel music, Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a legend in her time and a huge influence on Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, and Ray Charles. Marie and Rosetta chronicles her first rehearsal with a young protégée, Marie Knight, as they prepare to embark on a tour that would establish them as one of the great duos in musical history.

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