The Lily's Revenge
- Full Length Musical, Drama, Contemporary
- 3M, 4F, 25M or F
- ISBN: ps2581
An uprooted Lily falls in love with a blushing bride, much to the dismay of The Great Longing Deity, a malicious stage curtain hell-bent on spreading nostalgia and institutionalized narrative.
Description
- Full Length Musical
- Drama
- 300 minutes
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Flexible theater space
- Cautions: Strong Language, Intense Adult Themes
- Performance Group:
- Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student
- Accolades:
- Winner! 2009 Obie Award; Writer/Director Taylor Mac
Tasked with becoming a real man in order to wed its beloved, the Lily attempts to hijack the story and create its own kind of narrative. What follows is an epic dismantling of theatrical norms and an inspiring, raucous ode to storytelling in all its myriad forms.
Part Noh play, part musical, part verse play, part dance-theater, part silent film, and part party, The Lily's Revenge is a one-of-a-kind extravaganza of theater, love, and community.
REVIEWS:
"In its bravery, scope, creativity, extremity and sheer generosity of spirit, The Lily's Revenge, to my mind, surpasses any American theater in New York this year. [Taylor Mac] is one of the most exciting theater artists of our time."
Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
"The Lily's Revenge offers so many incidental pleasures that theatrical time -- always a curiously malleable element -- seems to contract. To my happy surprise, I emerged from The Lily's Revenge more refreshed than exhausted."
Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
"This was the most challenging, exciting and wonderful theater event of the year."
Paper Magazine
"...intelligent, endlessly surprising, and above all spectacularly entertaining. It inspires hyperbolic pronouncements like 'the most important event of the theater season' or 'the essential must-see event of the year'."
Martin Denton, NYTheatre.com
Characters
- Casting: 3M, 4F, 25M or F
