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Jonah

  • Rachel Bonds
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary, New Millennium/21st Century
  • 3M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573711374

Ana is deeply alone at boarding school until she crosses paths with day student Jonah. But as they navigate their new relationship, exultant desire shifts into more complex negotiations of intimacy and survival.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 105 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary, New Millennium/21st Century
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Intense Adult Themes, Suicide, Strong Language

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

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award (2024)
Ana is on scholarship at a boarding school far from home, deeply and distinctly alone until she crosses paths with day student Jonah. They navigate the edges of this new relationship, tentative and heady, but something else is stirring – what begins as an exploration of new, exultant desire shifts into more complex negotiations of intimacy and survival. A story of fracture and resilience, what bodies carry and what they can release, and the radical possibilities of trust.
REVIEWS:

"Always fascinating – an experiment in disorientation that is never less than very absorbing thanks to Bonds’ extraordinary gift for language."

 The Wrap

"A slip-slidey, stunning new play. Practically humming with tension. The kind of play that reveals itself slowly but entirely, without undermining its own considerable power by wrapping anything up neatly."

 The New York Times

"Well-composed… a worthy look at the stories we tell ourselves."

 Theatrely

Premiere Production: Jonah premiered off-Broadway at Roundabout Theatre on January 11, 2024. Directed by Tony Award winner Danya Taymor, the production featured Gabby Beans, Hagan Oliveras, Samuel H. Levine and John Zdrojeski.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 1F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)

  • ANA – Ages 16 through later 30s/40
    JONAH – 17
    DANNY – Ages 17 through early 20s
    STEVEN – Later 30s or early 40s

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    Ana is on scholarship at a boarding school far from home, deeply and distinctly alone until she crosses paths with day student Jonah. They navigate the edges of this new relationship, tentative and heady, but something else is stirring – what begins as an exploration of new, exultant desire shifts into more complex negotiations of intimacy and survival. A story of fracture and resilience, what bodies carry and what they can release, and the radical possibilities of trust.

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