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4000 Miles

  • Amy Herzog
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 1M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573700378

A funny, moving, altogether wonderful drama. . . A heartening reminder that a keen focus on life's small moments can pay off in a big way onstage.

The New York Times

This well-observed gem deserves to be a hit.

The New York Post

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult, Senior
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Smoking, Strong Language, Drugs, Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student, Senior Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Finalist! 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
    Winner! 2012 Obie Award for Best New Play
    Winner! 2012 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award
    Winner! Time Magazine's #1 Play or Musical of 2012

    Amy Herzog is the 2011 recipient of the Whiting Award for Drama
After suffering a major loss while he was on a cross-country bike trip, 21 year-old Leo seeks solace from his feisty 91 year-old grandmother Vera in her West Village apartment. Over the course of a single month, these unlikely roommates infuriate, bewilder, and ultimately reach each other.

4000 MILES looks at how two outsiders find their way in today's world.
REVIEWS:

This well-observed gem deserves to be a hit.

The New York Post

In 4000 Miles a warm-hearted new play by Amy Herzog, both love and irritability are woven into an illumination of the healing process after the loss of a loved one. The sensitive play [is] filled with small, revelatory and often humorous moments between a grandmother and her grandson.

Associated Press

Herzog’s....humor, honesty and narrative subtlety make this a rarity: a family play that avoids sentimentality or sitcom shtick

Time Magazin

Amy Herzog['s] fine, deeply affecting dual character study... Although 4000 Miles makes one think of a first-rate novella, it is solidly theatrical. 4000 Miles is the sort of rich, satisfying play you should take your grandmother to — especially if she's as smart and fierce as Vera.

Time Out New York

A funny, moving, altogether wonderful drama. . . A heartening reminder that a keen focus on life's small moments can pay off in a big way onstage.

The New York Times

Amy Herzog's appealing new play, unfolds with the unassuming ease of conversations overheard, among people with complicated relationships.

Bloomberg
Premiere Production: 4000 Miles first opened at The Duke Theater in New York City on June 20, 2011, presented by Lincoln Center Theatre/LTC3, as a Steinberg New Works Program production, under the direction of Andre Bishop and Bernard Gersten, and Paige Evans, LCT3 Artistic Director. The director was Daniel Aukin. 4000 Miles moved to the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater in New York City, opening on April 2, 2012, presented by Lincoln Center Theatre, under the direction of Andre Bishop and Bernard Gersten. The director was Daniel Aukin.

Characters

  • Casting: 1M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle), Minority casting

  • LEO JOSEPH-CONNELL - Twenty-one
    VERA JOSEPH - Ninety-one
    BEC - Twenty-one
    AMANDA - Nineteen, Chinese-American

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    After suffering a major loss while he was on a cross-country bike trip, 21 year-old Leo seeks solace from his feisty 91 year-old grandmother Vera in her West Village apartment. Over the course of a single month, these unlikely roommates infuriate, bewilder, and ultimately reach each other. 4000 MILES looks at how two outsiders find their way in today's world.

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