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  • Joshua Harmon
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Present Day
  • 2M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573707483

A new play from Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews, Significant Other) that explodes the ideals and contradictions of liberal white America.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 105 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Target Audience: Adult

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

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! Drama Desk Award for Best Play
    Winner! Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play
Sherri Rosen-Mason is head of the admissions department at a New England prep school, fighting to diversify the student body. Alongside her husband, the school’s headmaster, they’ve largely succeeded in bringing a stodgy institution into the twenty-first century. But when their only son sets his sights on an Ivy League university, personal ambition collides with progressive values, with convulsive results.

A no-holds-barred look at privilege, power, and the perils of hypocrisy.
REVIEWS:

"Astonishing and daring. An extraordinarily useful and excruciating satire - of the left, by the left, for the left - for today."

 The New York Times

"The nuanced and competing truths in this 90-minute play are like a first act that dares its spectators to create a second out of post-show conversations."

 Time Out New York

"A smart, hilarious and provocative drama."

 The Hollywood Reporter

"The smartest, bravest play the West End has seen in ages."

 Spectator (London)

"Shockingly insightful and outrageously hilarious satire about class, race and the increasingly unbridgeable American cultural divide."

 St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"A blistering, disturbingly apt critique of how white supremacist ideas blight the white liberal elite."

 Chicago Reader

"Masterful. Expertly crafted. An absorbing drama and a prod to self-examination."

 Miami Herald

Premiere Production: Originally produced by Lincoln Center Theater, New York City, 2018

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 3F

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Sherri Rosen-Mason is head of the admissions department at a New England prep school, fighting to diversify the student body. Alongside her husband, the school’s headmaster, they’ve largely succeeded in bringing a stodgy institution into the twenty-first century. But when their only son sets his sights on an Ivy League university, personal ambition collides with progressive values, with convulsive results.

A no-holds-barred look at privilege, power, and the perils of hypocrisy.

$24.95

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