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Samsara

  • Lauren Yee
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Present Day
  • 3M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573799976

Katie and Craig are having a baby... with a surrogate... who lives in India. A whimsical take on modern day colonialism.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings, Bare Stage/Simple Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Shoestring Budget, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Large Stage
Katie and Craig are having a baby... with a surrogate... who lives in India.

A month before the baby's due date, Craig reluctantly travels to the subcontinent, where he meets Suraiya, their young, less-than-thrilled surrogate. As all three "parents" anxiously wait for the baby to be born, flights of fancy attack them from all sides, in the form of an unctuous Frenchman and a smart-mouthed fetus.

A whimsical take on modern day colonialism.
REVIEWS:

"[G]enuinely moving... stick with this one... there's a throbbing play here with a bleeding heart and a laudable awareness of how we sometimes only get one shot at happiness or escape, and how macroeconomics and geopolitics don't always embrace personal need."

 Chicago Tribune

"Highly Recommended... [I]t is the conversation between surrogate mother and unborn child -- some of it acerbic, some of it poignant, all of it hugely engaging -- that shows Yee at her sparkling best."

 Chicago Sun-Times

"Critics' Pick... A savvy and affecting piece about modern reproduction... the play's playful style doesn't diminish the weight of its substance."

 TimeOut Chicago

"Yee has a deft hand with exposition, telescoping complicated setup into light, punchy scenes... The bold theatricality of Yee's script keeps the audience engaged and giggling..."

 Los Angeles Times

Premiere Production: Samsara first premiered at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, IL in February of 2015 under the direction of Seth Bockley.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 2F

  • KATIE - mid to late 30s, female, Caucasian.
    CRAIG - mid to late 30s, male, Caucasian, her husband.
    SURAIYA - twentysomething but appears younger, female, Indian, their surrogate (also plays BABY).
    AMIT - appears to be the same age as Suraiya, male, Indian, a fetus (also plays INDIAN WOMAN IN LABOR, SURROGATE 1, MAILMAN).
    FRENCHMAN - any age, male, very French, a figmant of Katie's imagination (also plays DOCTOR, ORPHAN, SURROGATE 2).

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    Katie and Craig are having a baby... with a surrogate... who lives in India.

    A month before the baby's due date, Craig reluctantly travels to the subcontinent, where he meets Suraiya, their young, less-than-thrilled surrogate. As all three "parents" anxiously wait for the baby to be born, flights of fancy attack them from all sides, in the form of an unctuous Frenchman and a smart-mouthed fetus.

    A whimsical take on modern day colonialism.

    		$24.95

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