Sans-Culottes in the Promised Land
Lena’s days as Greta’s new nanny are numbered: her mishaps with the washing machine have mangled all of her young charge’s clothes, the housekeeper is hoping to get her fired, the family she works for is suffering identity crises unique to black urban professionals, and, oh yes, a forest has begun to climb its way through the floorboards of the house. This is a play of velocity and image that rumbles to a chilling end.
Cast Requirements
1 man
5 women
Production and Development History
Commissioned: South Coast Repertory Theatre.
Premiered: Humana Festival 2004.
Produced: North Carolina Actor’s Studio Theatre.
Developed: Madison Repertory Theatre’s Fall Festival of the Future; PlayTime, New Dramatists; Sundance Theatre Retreat, Ucross.
Reading: Oregon Shakespeare Festival.