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All the Natalie Portmans

  • C.A. Johnson
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 1M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573709524

Too smart, "too gay" and too lonely to fit in, Keyonna escapes into a world of rom coms, red carpets and all the iconic characters played by her muse, Natalie Portman. But when “all the Natalie Portmans” start talking back to her, Keyonna finally has to face her off-screen drama in C.A. Johnson's imaginative new play.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Sixteen-year-old Keyonna and her older brother Samuel live on the brink of eviction while dreaming of a better tomorrow. Too smart, "too gay" and too lonely to fit in, Keyonna escapes into a world of rom coms, red carpets and all the iconic characters played by her muse, Natalie Portman. But when "all the Natalie Portmans" start talking back to her, Keyonna finally has to face her off-screen drama in this imaginative new play that reminds us to embrace life on the ground while still reaching for the stars. 
REVIEWS:

"Tense and witty with profound reverberations."

 The Daily Beast

"Displays a deft way with character, enhanced by the playwright’s palpable sympathy."

 The New York Times

"Carefully wrought, intimate scenes... Johnson has obvious gifts for easy-flowing, realistic dialogue among family and friends."

 David Cote, Theater News Online

"[The play] demonstrates substantial talent and heart... The relationship between this Natalie—an always game, sometimes goofy, ultimately empathic imaginary friend...—and Keyonna, who is given defiant and tremendously endearing vitality... is the most entertaining and moving aspect of the play."

 New York Stage Review

Premiere Production: All the Natalie Portmans premiered off-Broadway at MCC Theatre in February 2020. Directed by Kate Whoriskey, the production featured Joshua Boone, Montego Glover, Elise Kibler, Raphael Peacock, Renika Williams and Kara Young.

Characters

  • Casting: 1M, 4F
  • Casting Attributes: Role(s) for Black Actor(s)

  • KEYONNA – 16, smart, lonely, a dreamer
    SAMUEL – 18, exceedingly kind, a high school dropout, a fixer
    CHANTEL – 17, very pretty, very afraid, but quick
    OVETTA – Mid-40s, a hotel worker, recovering alcoholic, trying
    NATALIE PORTMAN – White, ageless, the Academy Award-winning actress (sort of)
    EPPS – Upstairs neighbor, landlord, alcoholic (heard but not seen)

  • A few notes on NATALIE: It’s not important that the actress look like Natalie Portman too closely. It’s also not important that she too obviously emulates the real woman or her various roles. She is a manifestation of Keyonna’s inner psyche, which serves a purpose that, though tangential to the given role being cited, is wholly its own thing. In short: play around.

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    Sixteen-year-old Keyonna and her older brother Samuel live on the brink of eviction while dreaming of a better tomorrow. Too smart, "too gay" and too lonely to fit in, Keyonna escapes into a world of rom coms, red carpets and all the iconic characters played by her muse, Natalie Portman. But when "all the Natalie Portmans" start talking back to her, Keyonna finally has to face her off-screen drama in this imaginative new play that reminds us to embrace life on the ground while still reaching for the stars. 

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