Phoebe in Winter
- Full Length Play, Dark comedy, Contemporary
- 4M, 2F
- ISBN: ps2684
"Phoebe in Winter gives new meaning to the phrase 'the war at home'... every other line comes out as a smartly put, hard-won truth you want to hold on to for later rumination."
Olivia Jane Smith, New York Theatre Review
Description
- Full Length Play
- Dark comedy
- 90 minutes
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
- Cautions: Strong Language, Intense Adult Themes
- Performance Group:
- Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student
As Phoebe's presence changes the very structure of their family, a war that was once far away now threatens to reignite inside their home.
REVIEWS:
"Convincingly odd. Ms. Silverman has created a modern fairy tale, a little bad wolf whose lopsided grin reveals its crooked, bloody teeth."
Rachel Saltz, The New York Times
"Phoebe in Winter gives new meaning to the phrase 'the war at home'... every other line comes out as a smartly put, hard-won truth you want to hold on for later rumination."
Olivia Jane Smith, New York Theatre Review
"[A] vivid and darkly unsettling fable about war and its consequences."
Loren Noveck, NYTheatre
Characters
- Casting: 4M, 2F
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When three brothers return home from a distant war, they prepare to settle into their old lives. But a knock at the door yields a girl named Phoebe who accuses them of killing her own three brothers, and demands reparations--that they must become her new family instead. As Phoebe's presence changes the very structure of their family, a war that was once far away now threatens to reignite inside their home. |
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