-Nearly everything about David Adjmi's Stunning has an original ring to it, from the setting . . . to the brassy bleat of the dialogue.- -Time Out New York
This volume of distinctive work includes Stunning, set in an insular Syrian Jewish community, where a teenage bride's world is disrupted by her intellectual African American housekeeper; Evildoers, about the collapse of two privileged couples; and Elective Affinities, a post-9/11 monologue.
David Adjimi's other plays include Marie Antoninette, 3C, Strange...
-Nearly everything about David Adjmi's Stunning has an original ring to it, from the setting . . . to the brassy bleat of the dialogue.- -
Characters: 2m, 4f / DramaDavid Adjmi received the first ever Steinberg "Mimi" Playwright Award in 2009Sixteen year old Lily knows nothing beyond the Syrian-Jewish community in Brooklyn where she lives a cloistered life with her much older husband. Soon an unlikely relationship with her enigmatic African-American maid opens Lily's world to new possibilities - but at a huge price. David Adjmi's daring new work shifts from caustic satire to violent drama as it exposes the ways we invent and defend our identities in the melting-pot of America."Impossible to dismiss...An artist...whose next work...
Characters: 2m, 4f / DramaDavid Adjmi received the first ever Steinberg "Mimi" Playwright Award in 2009Sixteen year old Lily knows nothing beyond the ...
How's a queen to keep her head in the middle of a revolution? Marie Antoinette delights and inspires her French subjects with her three-foot tall wigs and extravagant haute couture. But times change and even the most fashionable queens go out of style. In the humorous and haunting "Marie Antoinette," idle gossip turns more insidious as the country revolts, demanding liberte, egalite, fraternite "
How's a queen to keep her head in the middle of a revolution? Marie Antoinette delights and inspires her French subjects with her three-foot tall wigs...
