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DREAM HOU$E

  • Eliana Pipes
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Present Day
  • 3F, 2M or F
  • ISBN: 9780573710094

Two Latinx sisters prepare to sell their home on a reality TV show, hoping to capitalize on neighborhood gentrification. But once the cameras are rolling, the family's turbulent past and uncertain future begin to collide, and the sisters are forced to reckon with the secrets held between the house's walls.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 105 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes, Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! KCACTF Harold and Mimi Steinberg Playwriting Award (2021)
    Winner! Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Fellowship (2021)
    Winner! Arizona Theatre Company National Latine Playwriting Award (2020)
    Winner! The Leah Ryan Fund Prize (2019)
Two Latina sisters are appearing on an HGTV-style reality show to sell their family home, hoping to capitalize on the gentrification in their “changing neighborhood.” As they perform for the camera the show starts to slip into the surreal: one sister grapples with turmoil in the family’s ancestral past and the other learns how much she’s willing to sacrifice for the family’s future.

Dream Hou$e, which earned both the Kendeda Award and Steinberg Playwriting Award in 2021, is a crowd-pleasing comedy with a twist that asks: What is the cultural cost of progress in America? And is cashing in always selling out?
REVIEWS:

"Ingenious...reveals its layers subtly but persistently."

 MD Theatre Guide

"Many excellent plays have tackled the issue of gentrification...but there's a freshness and an intimacy to Dream Hou$e that allows it to inhabit its own space."

 Arts ATL

"Entertains as it asks you to think critically."

 Broadway World

"Purposefully uncentered, unsettled social satire, which explores the meaning of everything from genealogy to gentrification, from virtue to video."

 Hartford Courant

"As a satirical send-up of reality TV, Pipes' play is...sharp and on-target."

 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"We are rocketed through every emotion on the spectrum—one moment laughing at the absurd and silly, and the next, devastated by loss and fragility."

 MD Theatre Guide

Premiere Production: Dream Hou$e had its world premiere as a triple co-production. Throughout spring 2022, the play was performed at Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Long Wharf Theatre in Connecticut and Baltimore Center Stage, under the direction of Laurie Woolery.

Characters

  • Casting: 3F, 2M or F
  • Casting Attributes: All Female, Room for Extras, Roles for Multicultural Casting, Expandable casting, Role(s) for Latino Actor(s), Role(s) for Black Actor(s)

  • PATRICIA – Woman. Late 30s, Latina or Afrolatina.
    JULIA – Woman. Late 20s, Latina or Afrolatina.
    TESSA – Woman. Early 30s, white.
    THE CREW – 2+ actors, non-speaking.

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    Two Latina sisters are appearing on an HGTV-style reality show to sell their family home, hoping to capitalize on the gentrification in their “changing neighborhood.” As they perform for the camera the show starts to slip into the surreal: one sister grapples with turmoil in the family’s ancestral past and the other learns how much she’s willing to sacrifice for the family’s future.

    Dream Hou$e, which earned both the Kendeda Award and Steinberg Playwriting Award in 2021, is a crowd-pleasing comedy with a twist that asks: What is the cultural cost of progress in America? And is cashing in always selling out?

    		$24.95

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