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Smart People

  • Lydia R. Diamond
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, New Millennium/21st Century
  • 2M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573704864

"...a sexy, serious and very, very funny modern-day comedy of manners,"

Variety

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 120 minutes

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

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Professional Theatre
It is the eve of Obama's first election. Four of Harvard University's brightest, a surgeon, an actress, a psychologist, and a neuro-psychiatrist are all interested in different aspects of the brain, particularly how it responds to race. But like all smart people, they are also searching for love, success, and identity in their own lives. Lydia Diamond brings these characters together in this sharp, witty play about social and sexual politics.
REVIEWS:

"...a sexy, serious and very, very funny modern-day comedy of manners."

 Variety

"...crisp and clever dialogue... Smart People is very funny because it reflects a vert sympathetic human foible; the desire to resolve our racial conflicts without messing things up every time we open our mouths."

 Broadwayworld.com

"Smart People is a great ride; I loved every talky minute of it."

 Deadline

"Splendid! Diamond...draw[s] laughs even as she firmly pushes back against the notion that we're living in a 'post-racial society'."

 Boston Globe

Premiere Production: Smart People premiered at the Huntington Theatre in Boston in May of 2014 under the direction of Peter DuBois.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Ensemble cast, Role(s) for Black Actor(s), Role(s) for Asian Actor(s)

  • VALERIE JOHNSTON - 24, African American. Recently graduated A.R.T. Acting MFA.
    JACKSON MOORE - 28, African American. Harvard Med School. Surgical Intern on Rotation.
    BRIAN WHITE - 36-42, White. Tenured professor at Harvard, Neuro-psychiatrist. Studies patterns of racial identity and perceptions.
    GINNY YOUNG - 34-40, Chinese-Japanese American. No accent. Only speaks English. Respected tenured professor of psychology at Harvard, Studies race and identity among Asian American women.

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    It is the eve of Obama's first election. Four of Harvard University's brightest, a surgeon, an actress, a psychologist, and a neuro-psychiatrist are all interested in different aspects of the brain, particularly how it responds to race. But like all smart people, they are also searching for love, success, and identity in their own lives. Lydia Diamond brings these characters together in this sharp, witty play about social and sexual politics.

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