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Yellow

  • Del Shores
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 3M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573700972

A year in the life of what seems to be the perfect family, whose foundations are rocked to the breaking point by an unexpected tragedy.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set, Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Smoking, Strong Language, Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! 2012 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award - Best Production
    Winner! 2012 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award - Best World Premiere Play
Yellow chronicles a year in the life of the perfect family in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Bobby Westmoreland, a high school football coach, and his wife Kate, a respected therapist, have two ambitious children in high school. Their son Dayne is the golden football star while their daughter Gracie is an overly-dramatic actress. Gracie’s best friend is a young gay boy, Kendall, who is at constant odds with his abusive, fundamentalist mother, Sister Timothea.

The play opens with the start of the football season and high school auditions for “Oklahoma.” Everything falls apart when an unexpected tragedy rocks the Westmoreland family to the breaking point. Yellow explores the themes of cowardice, intolerance and the damage caused to families by secrets, rejection and the difficulty of forgiveness.

A departure from the comedy of earlier works, Del Shores’ Yellow is the award-winning playwright’s most dramatic play to date. The play was one of the most awarded Los Angeles plays of 2010, winning Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for Best Production and Best World Premiere Play.
REVIEWS:

"Shores has written a darker play than usual, sadder in its view of human folly but wiser in its openess to the forgiveness and generosity of spirit that often make life tolerable. As always with this accomplished playwright, there's never a dull moment onstage."

 The Hollywood Reporter

"...this powerfully moving work points to exciting new creative directions for a gifted playwright."

 Backstage

"Yellow is a rippingly entertaining show..."

 LA Weekly

Premiere Production: Yellow was first presented by Louise Beard, Emerson Collins, Jason Dottley, and Del Shores for JD3atrical Prods. at the Coast Playhouse in Santa Monica, California, on June 11, 2012. It was directed by the author.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Ensemble cast, Features Teens, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)
  • Casting Notes: In the original production, the two teens were played by actors in their early 20s.

  • BOBBY WESTMORELAND - 40's. A football coach and family man. Easy-going, laidback, still handsome and in shape.

  • KATE WESTMORELAND - 40's. A therapist. Strong-willed, opinionated, smart, sexual and pretty. Great mom, runs her house.

  • DAYNE WESTMORELAND - 17. A high school senior. This family's golden boy. Confident and very handsome. The best fullback to come out of the state of Mississippi.

  • GRACIE WESTMORELAND - 15. An overly-dramatic high school sophomore who is consumed with acting and sibling rivalry.

  • KENDALL PARKER - 15. Effeminate, too pretty to be a boy. Wise beyond his years. He escapes his fundamentalist mother through his love for theatre.

  • SISTER TIMOTHEA PARKER - 40's. A conservative, crazy religious fundamentalist.

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    Yellow chronicles a year in the life of the perfect family in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Bobby Westmoreland, a high school football coach, and his wife Kate, a respected therapist, have two ambitious children in high school. Their son Dayne is the golden football star while their daughter Gracie is an overly-dramatic actress. Gracie’s best friend is a young gay boy, Kendall, who is at constant odds with his abusive, fundamentalist mother, Sister Timothea. The play opens with the start of the football season and high school auditions for “Oklahoma.” Everything falls apart when an unexpected tragedy rocks the Westmoreland family to the breaking point. Yellow explores the themes of cowardice, intolerance and the damage caused to families by secrets, rejection and the difficulty of forgiveness. A departure from the comedy of earlier works, Del Shores’ Yellow is the award-winning playwright’s most dramatic play to date. The play was one of the most awarded Los Angeles plays of 2010, winning Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for Best Production and Best World Premiere Play.

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