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Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods

  • Tammy Ryan
  • Full Length Play, Drama, New Millennium/21st Century
  • 3M, 3F
  • ISBN: LK4

"Tammy Ryan has come up with another highly original, provocative and evocative play... The result becomes a remarkable experience."

WRCT, Pittsburgh

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 100 minutes

  • Time Period: New Millennium/21st Century
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Area Staging

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! 2012 Francesca Primus Prize
In the early '90s in Sudan after civil war destroyed their villages, an exodus of boys trekked 800 miles across Africa until making it to refugee camps in Kenya, where they lived on a bowl of grain a day for 10 years. In 2001, the U.S. resettled 3,600 of these lost boys in cities across America.

Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods tells the story of Christine, a recently divorced East Ender from Pittsburgh, who meets Gabriel, a former lost boy working in the produce section of Whole Foods. Soon Gabriel's world becomes enmeshed with hers and daughter Alex-leading to a remarkable journey of awareness, struggle and hopefulness. The play asks the question: what happens when we open up our lives to help another human being-leaving us to wonder about the effect of one soul upon another. 
REVIEWS:

"Tammy Ryan has come up with another highly original, provocative and evocative play... The result becomes a remarkable experience."

WRCT, Pittsburgh

"Stirring... [a] most potent play."

 New Jersey Star-Ledger

"A powerful, timely... beautiful play."

Northern New Jersey Theater Examiner

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 3F

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Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods Script Order Now

In the early '90s in Sudan after civil war destroyed their villages, an exodus of boys trekked 800 miles across Africa until making it to refugee camps in Kenya, where they lived on a bowl of grain a day for 10 years. In 2001, the U.S. resettled 3,600 of these lost boys in cities across America. Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods tells the story of Christine, a recently divorced East Ender from Pittsburgh, who meets Gabriel, a former lost boy working in the produce section of Whole Foods. Soon Gabriel's world becomes enmeshed with hers and daughter Alex-leading to a remarkable journey of awareness, struggle and hopefulness. The play asks the question: what happens when we open up our lives to help another human being-leaving us to wonder about the effect of one soul upon another. Area staging. Approximate running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes.

$19.95

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