Late Wedding, The
- Full Length Play, Drama, Experimental
- 6M or F
- ISBN: 9780573709326
Inspired by the writings of Italo Calvino, The Late Wedding is a fractured portrait of a fractured marriage, as told through a series of interconnected fables, including an anthropological tour of fantastical tribes and their marital customs.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama, Experimental
- 90 minutes
- Target Audience: Adult
- Cautions: Strong Language
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
REVIEWS:
"Wild, witty... contemplative and poignant... you gotta see this funny, brilliant play."
San Francisco Examiner
"A seductive play... a fascinating little gem... a script about the mystery and challenges of love, in all its permutations. The play is a provocative one-act composed with a unique theatrical structure... a swirling nebula of magical notions put down in a contemporary world."
DC Metro Theatre Arts
"A comic, dramatic inquiry into human relationships – between lovers or spouses; between playwright and audience – [The Late Wedding] is another of Chen’s slyly metatheatrical, blissfully funny, whiplash-smart creations... What begins as a look at anthropological research into the marital arrangements and lore of a few odd tribes segues without warning into a political drama cum action thriller."
SF Gate
"Bold and brainy... As The Late Wedding dips in and out of such genres as the spy caper and science fiction... it blurs the boundaries between its two strands of Calvino homage, so that the genre-sampling meta-theater begins to reflect on the bittersweet realities of marriage."
The Washington Post
"[The Late Wedding] is about the vagaries of love and marriage, both homo- and heterosexual, and the way that we both cherish and distort the past, and about the creative process itself... you gotta see this funny, brilliant play."
San Francisco Examiner
Characters
- Casting: 6M or F
- Casting Attributes: Flexible casting
- Casting Notes: The Late Wedding can be presented with 3 to 16 actors playing various roles as indicated throughout the play. (4-8 may be the magic range?) Double, triple and quadruple casting is encouraged.
Casting and roles are fluid and up to director's discretion. For example, different actors may shift through the role of NARRATOR throughout the play. Genders and sexual orientations can be re-imagined, regardless of name. Pronouns can be shifted, "husbands" can be changed to "wives," etc. Acting should be natural and unadorned.
NARRATOR
KEL
LEE
CURTIS
FEN
INTERVIEWER
ADAMA
EVELYN
CASEN
JAMIE
SPY
ELEANOR
RAYA
ELEANOR
STRANGER
INNKEEPER
STRANGER 2
STRANGER 3
STRANGER 4
ELEANOR
GENERAL
PATRON 1
PATRON 2
PATRON 3
INNKEEPER
STRANGER
MRS. WEATHERBY
CAPTAIN
HAN
SAILOR
SAILOR
JENA
JORDA
HAN
CAPTAIN
HAN
ALI
NARRATOR
Available Material
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Inspired by the writings of Italo Calvino (Invisible Cities and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler), The Late Wedding is a fractured portrait of a fractured marriage, as told through a series of interconnected fables, including an anthropological tour of fantastical tribes and their marital customs. Christopher Chen's winking second-person narrative, delivered by a six-person shape-shifting cast, deftly guides you on a wild and delightful examination of love and longing. At once an anthropological tour through marriage customs, a spy thriller, and a sci-fi love story, the mind-bending The Late Wedding is an inventive and surprising theatrical experience. |
$24.95 |
