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Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick, A

  • Kia Corthron
  • Full Length Play, Drama, New Millennium / 21st Century
  • 3M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573698972

"Half family drama and half sociopolitical exposé, Cool Dip makes the social and ecological issues surrounding water both compelling and fascinating, shedding new light n this most basic of necessities"

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: New Millennium / 21st Century
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
A Cool Dip offers glimpses into the lives of Abebe, a young Ethopian man with a passion for the unlikely combination of Christianity and ecology, and the family that houses him during his college studies in Maryland. Through their interactions, the play uncompromisingly tackles the issues of drought and social injustice, combining a realistic evocation of human emotion with the fantastical to bring attention to the scarcity of something we so often take for granted: water.
REVIEWS:

"Half family drama and half sociopolitical exposé, Cool Dip makes the social and ecological issues surrounding water both compelling and fascinating, shedding new light on this most basic of necessities."

Show Business

"Waxing its most lyrical, whether about activism of the environmental or evangelical varieties, it's one of the most refreshing of the season to date."

TalkinBroadway.com

Premiere Production: A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick premiered at Playwrights Horizons in New York City in March 2010 under the direction of Chay Yew.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Role(s) for Black Actor(s), Roles for Children
  • Casting Notes: In the original production the actor playing TICH doubled with SEYOUM.

  • ABEBE - an Ethiopian man, 20, 27, 28.
    PICKLE - a black American woman, 42, 50.
    H.J. - Pickle's daughter, 17, 25.
    TAY - a white American boy, 9.
    SEYOUM - an Ethiopian man, 34.
    TICH - a black American man, late 20s to 30.
    THREE HEADS

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    A Cool Dip offers glimpses into the lives of Abebe, a young Ethopian man with a passion for the unlikely combination of Christianity and ecology, and the family that houses him during his college studies in Maryland. Through their interactions, the play uncompromisingly tackles the issues of drought and social injustice, combining a realistic evocation of human emotion with the fantastical to bring attention to the scarcity of something we so often take for granted: water.

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