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Milk (DeVoti)

  • Emily Devoti
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, 1980s
  • 3M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573699030

"There is an engagingly original streak running through her writing...[DeVoti] fills Milk with interesting details (lots of cow knowledge) and unexpected touches."

The New York Times

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy

  • Time Period: 1980s
Rural New England, just before Reagan's second term. Meg and Ben are a creditor away from losing their family farm. To the rescue flies a high-powered businessman – in a private chopper no less – offering a tidy sum for a taste of farm life and the pure, raw milk that goes with it. Even before locavores roamed the earth, 'back to the land' was hardly as simple as its promise; livestock and humans aren't known for behaving as expected. And so it is Milk, an elegant parable of change set on the cusp of a shifting American landscape.
REVIEWS:

"There is an engagingly original streak running through her writing... [DeVoti] fills Milk with interesting details (lots of cow knowledge) and unexpected touches."

The New York Times

Premiere Production: Milk was first produced by New Georges (Susan Bernfield, Artistic Director; Sarah Cameron Sunde, Associate Director) and New Feet Productions in New York City on April 29, 2010.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 3F

  • MEG - mid-40s/50s, savvy, educated, from the country
    BEN - mid-40s/50s, idealistic, from the city (the Bronx, but no accent)
    MATT - 14, emerging; born on the farm, but smart
    JAMES - mid-40s/50s, a businessman from the city, polished, aggressive but ultimately fragile
    VERONICA - 15, searching, had had to grow up a little too fast; from the city
    AUROCH - like Meg, but wilder -- and quite possibly the last living wild cow

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    Rural New England, just before Reagan's second term. Meg and Ben are a creditor away from losing their family farm. To the rescue flies a high-powered businessman – in a private chopper no less – offering a tidy sum for a taste of farm life and the pure, raw milk that goes with it. Even before locavores roamed the earth, 'back to the land' was hardly as simple as its promise; livestock and humans aren't known for behaving as expected. And so it is Milk, an elegant parable of change set on the cusp of a shifting American landscape.

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