Oldest Boy, The: A Play in Three Ceremonies
- Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
- 4M, 1F
- ISBN: 9780573705328
The Oldest Boy is a richly emotional journey filled with music, dance, puppetry, ritual, and laughter -- Sarah Ruhl at her imaginative best.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- 120 minutes
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Professional Theatre
The Oldest Boy is a richly emotional journey filled with music, dance, puppetry, ritual, and laughter -- Sarah Ruhl at her imaginative best. A meditation on attachment and unconditional love, the play asks us to believe in a world in which sometimes the youngest children are also the oldest and wisest teachers.
REVIEWS:
"Ms. Ruhl's drama is among the most easily accessible from this poetic, venturesome playwright...yet it is marked by Ms. Ruhl's inquisitive intelligence, clean-lined eloquence and spiky humor."
The New York Times
"...gorgeous fluidity in the writing... Ruhl uses her beguiling storytelling skills, including a porous fourth wall and elements of ceremonial dance, music and singing, to make the mother's struggle a dramatically cogent one."
Hollywood Reporter
"Sweet and spirit-filled... Ruhl uses the stage to explore unexpected places and ideas."
Star Tribune
Characters
- Casting: 4M, 1F
- Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Role(s) for Asian Actor(s)
A MONK - Tibetan, age immaterial
A LAMA - Tibetan, age immaterial
THE OLDEST BOY - older than the lama, speaks for and moves the puppet, Tibetan
FATHER - Tibetan, mid-thirties to mid-forties
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In this moving exploration of parenthood, an American mother and a Tibetan father have a three-year-old son believed to be the reincarnation of a Buddhist lama. When a Tibetan lama and a monk come to their home unexpectedly, asking to take their child away for a life of spiritual training in India, the parents must make a life-altering choice that will test their strength, their marriage, and their hearts. |
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