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Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter

When U.S. Marine Jenny Sutter returns from Iraq, she lays down her rifle but isn't ready to pick up her children.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
When U.S. Marine Jenny Sutter returns from Iraq, she lays down her rifle but isn't ready to pick up her children. Buying some time, Jenny takes a one-way trip to a misfit desert community called Slab City, where its kind residents gently nurture her wounded spirit, and nudge her back to her own humanity.
REVIEWS:

"It is a genuine slice-of-life, engaging from the start."

 Mercury News

"This is by no means the only play looking at the difficulties of re-integration faced by members of the Armed Services, but it is one that approaches the issue with a particularly restrained kind of dignity and that, as a consequence, rings very true."

 Chicago Tribune

"...powerful...poignant..."

 Journal Sentinel

"Part of that success...is also due to the artistic restraint  with which Myatt treats the issue, and her success in interweaving the traumas resulting from war with more domestic forms of post-traumatic stress."

 SF Gate

Premiere Production: Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter premiered in Ashland, Oregon with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in February of 2008 under the direction of Jessica Thebus.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Role(s) for Black Actor(s)

  • JENNY SUTTER - thirty, African-American
    HUGO - mid-twenties
    LOUISE (LOU) - mid-forties
    CHERYL - mid to late fifties
    DONALD - mid-thirties
    BUDDY - mid-forties, physically handicapped - body bent awkwardly sideways

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    When U.S. Marine Jenny Sutter returns from Iraq, she lays down her rifle but isn't ready to pick up her children. Buying some time, Jenny takes a one-way trip to a misfit desert community called Slab City, where its kind residents gently nurture her wounded spirit, and nudge her back to her own humanity.

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