Southern Promises (Thomas Bradshaw)
- Full Length Play, Drama
- 6M, 2F
- ISBN: 9780573697340
Slowly, almost single-handedly, a twenty-eight-year-old black playwright named Thomas Bradshaw has been taking on the idea of race in the theatre. At the same time, he has sliced open the pretensions of the white avant-garde with a wittily glistening axe. In his new play, Southern Promises (at Performance Space 122), one can catch a glimpse of Bradshaw's anarchic gifts.
The New Yorker
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
Bradshaw was named Playwright of the year by the theater blog KUL-That Sounds Cool and Southern Promises was named among the best performances of Stage and Screen for 2008 in The New Yorker.
REVIEWS:
Slowly, almost single-handedly, a twenty-eight-year-old black playwright named Thomas Bradshaw has been taking on the idea of race in the theatre. At the same time, he has sliced open the pretensions of the white avant-garde with a wittily glistening axe. In his new play, Southern Promises (at Performance Space 122), one can catch a glimpse of Bradshaw's anarchic gifts.
The New Yorker
It's a striking, challenging piece that studies the abuse of power and the liquidity of morality.' - NYTheatre.com'Likely to leave you speechless
The New York Times
Thomas Bradshaw's deeply twisted, coolly brutal period drama Southern Promises
Village Voice
Characters
- Casting: 6M, 2F
- Casting Attributes: Expandable casting
ELIZABETH - 28, his wife
DAVID - 30, Isaiah's brother
BENJAMIN - 32, a loyal slave
CHARLOTTE - 30, Benjamin's wife, a light-skinned mulatto slave. She should look almost white.
PETER - 37, a slave, Benjamin's friend
IMAGINARY SLAVE
DOCTOR
CLERK
MAN #1
MAN #2
Available Material
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Southern Promises (Thomas Bradshaw) Script
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When the master of the plantation dies, he wills his slaves to be freed, but his wife doesn't think that good property should be squandered. Pandemonium ensues. The play is inspired by the true story of Henry Box Brown who escaped to the north by mailing himself in a box. Southern Promises provides a unique portrait of the old south. Bradshaw was named Playwright of the year by the theater blog KUL-That Sounds Cool and Southern Promises was named among the best performances of Stage and Screen for 2008 in The New Yorker. |
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