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Precious Little

  • Madeleine George
  • Full Length Play, Drama, New Millennium/21st Century
  • 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573700842

A crisp, fast-moving, tough-minded but often comic play about love, language, memory, culture and commitment.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: New Millennium/21st Century
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings, Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: Strong Language, Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Reader's Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Winner - 10 Best Plays of 2011 The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Brodie, a gifted linguist, learns unsettling news about the baby she carries. Unable to get comfort from her girlfriend, she finds it in the two least likely sources imaginable: the elderly speaker of a vanishing language…and a gorilla at the zoo. 

Madeleine George’s irreverent and charming new play reveals the beauty and the limits of human language.
REVIEWS:

A crisp, fast-moving, tough-minded but often comic play about love, language, memory, culture and commitment.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Just sit in your chair and let George's ideas and words flood over you and raise you up. Her use of language is at the same time incredibly economic and hugely expansive.

Pittsburgh City Paper

An 80-minute little gem that makes a big impression.

San Francisco Chronicle
Premiere Production: Precious Little was first produced in June 2009, as part of the Summerworks series, by Clubbed Thumb, under artistic director Maria Striar, where it was directed by Hal Brooks. The play received its Chicago premiere in March 2011 by Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, where it was produced by Tara Mallen and Mary Cross and directed by Julieanne Ehre. The play was subsequently produced in April 2011 by City Theatre in Pittsburgh, under artistic director Tracy Brigden, directed by Tracy Brigden, and in August 2012 by Shotgun Players in Berkeley, under artistic director Patrick Dooley, where it was directed by Marissa Wolf.

Characters

  • Casting: 3F
  • Casting Attributes: All Female
  • Casting Notes: The Ape does not wear an ape suit. The Zoogoers are a single character - the multivoiced character of a crowd - rather than one actor playing many roles.

  • A - female, 60's, plays THE APE, DOROTHY, CLEVA, and THE BABY

  • B - female, 40's, plays BRODIE

  • C - female, 20's, plays THE ZOO GOERS, RHIANNON, EVELYN, DRE, and GLORIA

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    Brodie, a gifted linguist, learns unsettling news about the baby she carries. Unable to get comfort from her girlfriend, she finds it in the two least likely sources imaginable: the elderly speaker of a vanishing language…and a gorilla at the zoo. Madeleine George’s irreverent and charming new play reveals the beauty and the limits of human language.

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