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A SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. TITLE
Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 4m
Jonathan Payne
This devastating story—about a young woman's search for her missing foster brother—is based on Princess Grace Award-winning playwright Jonathan Payne's experience as a social worker.
Main PlayersKARMA – (17) F, black. The lone detective.MADAM ROSE PROFÍT – (65) F, black. Proprietor of the Amigone Funeral Home, Inc.
The EnsembleTHE BARBER – (30s) M, black. Also plays BALL PLAYER 2 and GOTTOTHE OLD TEACHER – (60s) M, white. Also plays THE POLICE OFFICERFOSTER MOM – (20s) F, black. Also plays THE EX and BOY 3YOUNG WOMAN – (20s) F, black. Also plays THE MOTHER and THE PROTÉGÉBALL PLAYER 1 – (20s) M, black. Also plays DANTE, BOY 1 and YOUTHBALL PLAYER 3 – (20s) M, black. Also plays BOY 2, THE FRIEND and DEATH
“Funny, heart-wrenching and profoundly disturbing.”– TimeOut NY
“This is confident genre playwriting… Mr. Payne, whose day job is in social work, captures with clinical precision the defenses and despair of the chronically under-nurtured... an aggressive play about lives steeped in aggression.” – The New York Times
“Jonathan Payne’s The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d doesn’t break the fourth wall so much as completely dismantle it.” – TimeOut New York
“[Jonathan Payne is] sharpest when he takes aim at the cynicism of those who would seek to use the misery of urban poverty as a way to push the story of their own righteousness.” – TheaterMania
“Arresting...These scenes present a picture of individual and systemic neglect and indifference.” – New York Theater
“Through Payne’s poetic language and keen psychological insight, the people of the Oblong seem multidimensional and real, even when they are pushed to their limits.” – TimeOut NY