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Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise, The

The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise probes the everyday life of urban adults. Everything seems comfortable -- jobs, relationships. But beneath the surface runs a powerful undercurrent of longing.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, New Millennium/21st Century
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
A man dreams that his girlfriend is dead. Not because he wants to kill her but because he imagines his life would be more meaningful to have a girlfriend who has died. A woman dreams she is riding the subway, forever. She arrives at a mysterious gathering deep underground, and when she returns to her real life, she finds that decades have gone by and her boyfriend is aged and dying.

The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise is a modern folktale set against an urban landscape, about our collective longing for the extraordinary, and the mundanity of everyday life.
REVIEWS:

"CRITIC'S PICK! A reverie of a play."

 The New York Times

"These are the serious questions, and I, like the characters may be sleeping through them. In those moments, the play feels like a knife in the gut."

 Time Out New York

"Maybe it's our fate to always wish for more, but Okada hits that something more is all around us, if only we could step outside ourselves and see."

 The Village Voice

"Toshiki Okada is the Thornton Wilder for the Google generation."

 NY Theatre Now

Premiere Production: The American premiere of The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise was produced by PlayCo, and presented at Jack, under the direction of Dan Rothenberg.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Ensemble cast, Roles for Multicultural Casting, Non-Traditional casting

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A man dreams that his girlfriend is dead. Not because he wants to kill her but because he imagines his life would be more meaningful to have a girlfriend who has died. A woman dreams she is riding the subway, forever. She arrives at a mysterious gathering deep underground, and when she returns to her real life, she finds that decades have gone by and her boyfriend is aged and dying.

The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise is a modern folktale set against an urban landscape, about our collective longing for the extraordinary, and the mundanity of everyday life.

$24.95

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