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No More Sad Things

  • Hansol Jung
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 2M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573705700

A girl catches a last-minute flight to Maui. A boy finds girl on the shores of Ka’anapali. Something strange and something familiar pulls them closer.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 75 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
A girl catches a last-minute flight to Maui. A boy finds girl on the shores of Ka’anapali. Something strange and something familiar pulls them closer. They have sex on the beach. They are surprised. They spend the week together. But eventually girl catches the flight back home to Akron, Ohio. The girl is thirty-two. The boy is fifteen.
REVIEWS:

"A smart, poignant and often funny play."

 Chicago Tribune

"No More Sad Things is a beguiling, winningly acted fable about the kind of week-long acquaintance that can change the trajectory of your life."

 Time Out Chicago

"A smart, poignant and often funny play that sets you up to watch a typically post-modern, woman-centered romantic comedy, only then to subvert and satirize many of the elements of that genre."

 Chicago Tribune

"This well-crafted tale of an improbable yet somehow inevitable relationship is a gorgeous piece of theatre... Jung indeed is a master of blending, with the past and the present, the real and the theatrical, the idiosyncratically comedic and the deeply sad all weaving seamlessly into one story."

 Splash Magazine

"Hilarious and tender... the language Jung gives [Jessiee] is charming, surprising, and occasionally quite beautiful"

 The Stranger

Premiere Production: No More Sad Things co-premiered in production by the Sideshow Theatre Company at the Biograph Theatre in Chicago, IL in November 2015 under the direction of Elly Green, and in production by the Boise Contemporary Theatre in Boise, ID under the direction of Julia Ritchey.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 1F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Multicultural Casting

JESSIEE – Female, 32 years old.
KAHEKILI – Male, 15 years old. A Hawaiian waterman.
GUIDEBOOK – A guide through things.

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A girl catches a last-minute flight to Maui. A boy finds girl on the shores of Ka’anapali. Something strange and something familiar pulls them closer. They have sex on the beach. They are surprised. They spend the week together. But eventually girl catches the flight back home to Akron, Ohio. The girl is thirty-two. The boy is fifteen.

$24.95

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