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Prophet (Thomas Bradshaw)

Fasten your seatbelts. PROPHET, Thomas Bradshaw's lacerating satire,...hurtles from rambunctious mockery to real horror. This is situation satire with a vengeance...

The New York Times

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: Strong Language, Intense Adult Themes
A man wakes up one morning and decides he must kill himself. He is angry with himself for not hitting his wife every time she has an independent thought (as Abraham and Moses would have done). After she dies and God reveals to him that he is the new Prophet, the man takes a new wife, dresses her in slave chains, and begins to preach his newfound gospel of male domination.

Simultaneously humorous and disturbing, Bradshaw's Prophet explores controversial issues in startling and unexpected ways.

This play contains scenes of a graphic sexual and violent nature that may not be suitable for all audiences.
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Fasten your seatbelts. PROPHET, Thomas Bradshaw's lacerating satire,...hurtles from rambunctious mockery to real horror. This is situation satire with a vengeance...

The New York Times
Premiere Production: Prophet was originally produced at P.S. 122 from November 30th - December 17th, 2005.

Characters

  • Casting: 4M, 3F

  • ALEX - a forty year old rich white lawyer
    MONA - Alex's white wife
    JOHN - Alex's rich black best friend
    MADELINE - white, John's wife
    LISA - John and Madeline's young daughter
    SHANIQUA - black, a girl from the ghetto
    TYRONE - black, Shaniqua's boyfriend
    GOD
    PRIEST
    MORTICIAN
    MEN
    FEMINIST MOB

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    A man wakes up one morning and decides he must kill himself. He is angry with himself for not hitting his wife every time she has an independent thought (as Abraham and Moses would have done). After she dies and God reveals to him that he is the new Prophet, the man takes a new wife, dresses her in slave chains, and begins to preach his newfound gospel of male domination. Simultaneously humorous and disturbing, Bradshaw's Prophet explores controversial issues in startling and unexpected ways.This play contains scenes of a graphic sexual and violent nature that may not be suitable for all audiences.

    		$24.95

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