Is God Is

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Is God Is

Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy  /  4w, 4m

Aleshea Harris

Winner of the 2016 Relentless Award, Aleshea Harris evokes the ancient, the modern, the tragic, the Spaghetti Western and Afropunk in this darkly funny and unapologetic tale of revenge.

Image: 2018 Soho Rep Production (Julieta Cervantes)

Is God Is

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    4w, 4m
  • Duration
    Duration
    105 Minutes
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult
Accolades
Accolades

  • Winner! 2018 Obie Award for Playwriting
    Winner! 2016 Relentless Award

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Summary
Is God Is is a modern myth about twin sisters who sojourn from the Dirty South to the California desert to exact righteous revenge. Winner of the 2016 Relentless Award, Aleshea Harris evokes the ancient, the modern, the tragic, the Spaghetti Western and Afropunk in this darkly funny and unapologetic tale of revenge.
History
Is God Is premiered off-Broadway at Soho Rep on 18 February 2018. Directed by Taibi Magar, the production featured Teagle F. Bougere, Anthony Cason, Nehassaiu deGannes, Jessica Frances Dukes, Caleb Eberhardt, Alfie Fuller, Michael Genet and Dame-Jasmine Hughes.
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Performing Groups
RACINE – African-American. A woman of twenty-one years. Identical twin sister to ANAIA. Has burn scars on her arms, back and neck but a face of considerable beauty.
ANAIA – Has burn scars on her arms, face and neck. Hard to look at. Wears a wig.
SHE – African-American. Mother to RACINE and ANAIA. Has burn scars over her entire body.
CHUCK HALL – African-American. A lawyer. Middle-aged.
RILEY – African-American. A boy of sixteen.
SCOTCH – African-American. A boy of sixteen.
ANGIE – African-American. Mother to RILEY and SCOTCH.
MAN – African-American. A father.
  • Time Period Contemporary, Present Day
  • Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
  • Additional Features Stage Combat
  • Duration 105 Minutes

Media

“A rich, funny, unnerving, exhilarating gold mine.” – New York Magazine

“A snarly new master of high-octane carnage has risen into view. And she - yes, she - is putting her own audacious stamp on that most venerable of pop genres… Is God Is sees fit to bring down the house.” – The New York Times

“Excellent revenge fantasy… furious and incandescent.” – Time Out New York

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  • Is God Is

    Image: 2021 Royal Court Theatre Production (Tristram Kenton)

  • Is God Is

    Image: 2018 Soho Rep Production (Julieta Cervantes)

  • Is God Is

    Image: 2018 Soho Rep Production (Julieta Cervantes)

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Aleshea Harris

Aleshea Harris

Aleshea Harris’s play Is God Is (directed by Taibi Magar at Soho Rep and Ola Ince at the Royal Court) won the 2016 Relentless Award, an Obie Award for playwriting in 2017, the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award in 2019 and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. What ...

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