Milk Like Sugar
- Full Length Play, Drama, Present Day, New Millennium/21st Century, Contemporary
- 2M, 5F
- ISBN: 9780573700361
A distinctive view of a matter of vital currency, crisply delineated characters who reveal more layers as the play proceeds, richly funny vernacular dialogue...Milk Like Sugar delivers piercing glimpses of the way underachievement and unhappiness are passed down from generation to generation.
The New York Times
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- 90 minutes
- Time Period: Present Day, New Millennium/21st Century, Contemporary
- Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
- Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
- Cautions: Alcohol, Strong Language, Intense Adult Themes
- Performance Group:
- Large Stage, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
- Accolades:
- Winner! 2012 Obie Award for Playwriting
Winner! 2011 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award
Winner! 2011 San Diego Critics Circle Craig Noel Award for Outstanding New Play
When Annie tries to make good on her promise to her friends, she is forced to take a good look at the world that surrounds her. She befriends Malik, who promises a bright future, and Keera, whose evangelical leanings inspire Annie in a way her young parents have not been able to do.
In the end Annie’s choices propel her onto an irreversible path in this story that combines wit, poetry, and hope.
REVIEWS:
Milk Like Sugar’s remarkable features include its locale, an urban, African-American subworld that displays, for once, neither the brutalizing clichés of a poverty-stricken ghetto nor the discomfiting artificiality of a talented-tenth safe haven. Instead, Greenidge populates her story with a sampling of the innumerable young people between those extremes.
The Village Voice
The title refers to the sweet powdered milk that offers far more flavor than nutritional value. But the tart Milk Like Sugar offers plenty of both
The New York Post
Greenidge captures girl speak in unnerving perfection
The Daily News
A distinctive view of a matter of vital currency, crisply delineated characters who reveal more layers as the play proceeds, richly funny vernacular dialogue… Milk Like Sugar delivers piercing glimpses of the way underachievement and unhappiness are passed down from generation to generation.
The New York Times
Kirsten Greenidge's fast-talking, victim-taking New York debut
Entertainment Weekly
Greenidge’s crackling, often humorous dialogue is in the vernacular of inner-city residents who deliberately distort language…Metaphors about flames, burning and flying are nicely woven throughout the story, along with lyrical symbolic imagery.
The Associated Press
Characters
- Casting: 2M, 5F
- Casting Attributes: Features Teens, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Role(s) for Black Actor(s), Multicultural casting
TALISHA
MARGIE
ANTWOINE
MALIK
MYRNA
KEERA
Available Material
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Milk Like Sugar Script
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It is Annie Desmond’s sixteenth birthday and her friends have decided to help her celebrate in style, complete with a brand new tattoo. Before her special night is over, however, Annie and her friends enter into a life altering pact. When Annie tries to make good on her promise to her friends, she is forced to take a good look at the world that surrounds her. She befriends Malik, who promises a bright future, and Keera, whose evangelical leanings inspire Annie in a way her young parents have not been able to do. In the end Annie’s choices propel her onto an irreversible path in this story that combines wit, poetry, and hope. |
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