Backsliding in the Promised Land
By Michele Lowe.
Product Code: BB3000
Full-length Play
Cast size: 4m., 6w. (May be doubled to 2m., 5w., 1 boy. The boy is a non-speaking role.)
Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Rights and availability
This title can be licensed and sold in the following countries:
Canada, United States
* Please note the royalty rate listed is the minimum royalty rate per performance. The actual royalty rate will be determined upon completion of a royalty application.
Synopsis
What price would you pay to protect your family? In a world gone mad would you surrender your identity to save your life? To save your children? Enid and Herman Grosch were refugees from Amsterdam when they landed in America in 1939. At Herman's mother's insistence, they erased their Jewish identities and embraced the Episcopalian church. Now, at the turn of the 21st century, they must confront old and unresolved fears as their long-kept secret begins to unravel. While Herman helps Naomi and Saul Baum, an Orthodox Jewish family, wrestle with their son's terminal illness, he is forced to confront the demons of his past, upsetting the balance of his marriage and questioning the nature of his soul. Who is he really? In this heart-wrenching drama touched with humor, Lowe explores issues of identity, the price of safety and the redeeming power of truth. A powerful and original drama.
Notes
Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Details
- Status In stock
- Type of Show Full-length Play
- Product Code BB3000
- Minimum Cast Size 7
- Pages of Dialogue 68
- Min. Royalty Rate $85.00/perf
- Approx. Run Time 120 min
- Staging Area staging.
Categories
- ISBN(13) 9781583422694
Customer Reviews
Hints, Tips, and Tricks
I created the set to rotate with four separate walls and backgrounds. We combined two and then used different furniture for each. This helped to make the scenes different and distinct. There were windows with curtains, pictures and plants in each, making them separate from each other. We had a hospital bed, couches, chests, tables and chairs. At each scene, the crew would rotate the background (or walls) and add the appropriate furniture.
Media Reviews
"A must-see … comes straight from the heart." -The Post-Standard"Stunning theatre … A beautifully crafted and detailed script … as masterful and moving an experience as any you are likely to have in a theater." -Auburn Citizen
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