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Lifetime Burning, A

  • Cusi Cram
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Contemporary
  • 1M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573698286

"A terrific indictment of the reality-obsessed culture in which we live."

Theatermania.com

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
If you had the power to revise your past, what would you change? Who would you be? Trust fund darling Emma imagines what her life would have been like had she come from a less privileged background. Trouble is, she chronicles her alternate life in a new tell-all "memoir" that was sold for a hefty advance. 

When Emma is exposed, will her sister, Tess, stand by her? Or will Emma's deceit destroy their already fractured relationship? This dark comedy brings up questions of legacy, loyalty and what it means to belong.
REVIEWS:

"The dialogue crackles with snappy sarcasms."

The New York Times

"A terrific indictment of the reality-obsessed culture in which we live."

Theatermania.com

"Quirky, often funny, and sometimes surprisingly sharp-witted writing."

The Village Voice

Premiere Production: A Lifetime Burning premiered at Primary Stages in New York City in July 2009 under the direction of Pam McKinnon.

Characters

  • Casting: 1M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Role(s) for Latino Actor(s), Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)

  • TESS - late 30s
    EMMA - late 30s
    ALEJANDRO - early 20s, Latino
    LYDIA - 40s, British

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    If you had the power to revise your past, what would you change? Who would you be? Trust fund darling Emma imagines what her life would have been like had she come from a less privileged background. Trouble is, she chronicles her alternate life in a new tell-all 'memoir' that was sold for a hefty advance. When Emma is exposed, will her sister, Tess, stand by her? Or will Emma's deceit destroy their already fractured relationship? This dark comedy brings up questions of legacy, loyalty and what it means to belong.

    		$24.95

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