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Seven Spots on the Sun

  • Martin Zimmerman
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 3M, 2F, 3M or F
  • ISBN: 9780573706783

"Stunningly unflinching Seven Spots On The Sun mesmerizes from start to finish."

BroadwayWorld Los Angeles

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Cautions: Intense Adult Themes, Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
The village of San Isidro has been without its doctor for eighteen. Moisés has remained a recluse, refusing to even look at a patient, since the day the army took his wife away during the country's civil war. But when a mysterious plague begins to ravage the countryside around San Isidro, the local parish priest convinces Moisés to take action.

When Moisés examines his first patient, he discovers he has the miraculous power to heal this plague with the touch of his hand. But among the thousands of pilgrims who flock to San Isidro, Moisés is forced to confront his past, and San Isidro the violence that tore it apart.

A meditation on mourning, redemption, and revenge, Seven Spots On The Sun follows each character's attempt to come to terms with the extraordinary losses they have suffered and the miracles they have witnessed.
REVIEWS:

"Startling and visceral, Martín Zimmerman's fablelike play [...] explores the brutalities of war and the confusions of recovery. The style is magical realism and it takes an unusually confident writer to sketch a jaunta and it's aftermath in just eighty minutes. Zimmerman has that confidence."

 The New Yorker

"Stunningly unflinching Seven Spots On The Sun mesmerizes from start to finish."

 BroadwayWorld Los Angeles

"Come ready to read between the lines and follow the symbols, and enjoy an intellectual feast, even as you will squirm in your chair at how recognizable it all is."

 Pasadena Star News

"The sort of play that gets under your skin. You leave the theater and you want to keep talking about it. Zimmerman's script is extraordinarily poetic -- a harrowing, memorable theatrical experience."

 Cincinnati Enquirer

Premiere Production: Seven Spots on the Sun premiered at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park in Cincinnati, OH in September 2013 under the direction of KJ Sanchez.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 2F, 3M or F
  • Casting Attributes: Role(s) for Latino Actor(s), Expandable casting

  • MOISÉS - 42, a doctor
    BELÉN - 35, a nurse. Moisés' wife
    EUGENIO - a priest. At least as old as Moisés. Perhaps much older.
    MÓNICA - 27, a soldier's wife
    LUIS - 31, Mónica's husband
    THE TOWN - three or more. Perhaps many more? Men and women. The engine of the play, they portray all roles not named above.

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    The village of San Isidro has been without its doctor for eighteen. Moisés has remained a recluse, refusing to even look at a patient, since the day the army took his wife away during the country's civil war. But when a mysterious plague begins to ravage the countryside around San Isidro, the local parish priest convinces Moisés to take action.

    When Moisés examines his first patient, he discovers he has the miraculous power to heal this plague with the touch of his hand. But among the thousands of pilgrims who flock to San Isidro, Moisés is forced to confront his past, and San Isidro the violence that tore it apart.

    A meditation on mourning, redemption, and revenge, Seven Spots On The Sun follows each character's attempt to come to terms with the extraordinary losses they have suffered and the miracles they have witnessed.

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