A SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. TITLE
Lewiston/Clarkston
Full-Length Play, Drama
Lewiston/Clarkston consists of two deeply moving works by Award-winning playwright Samuel D. Hunter. Through quiet rhythms and characters torn between nostalgia and escapism, they elucidate an unnameable quality that unites Americans, and people living on the planet.
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Duration
More than 120 minutes (2 hours) -
Suggested Use
- Monologues
- Scene Work
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Target Audience
Adult
Details
Summary
Alice and Connor sit by their roadside stand selling cheap fireworks while developers swallow the land around them. Promised a condo in the new development, their future is secure. Enter Marnie, Alice’s long-lost granddaughter, proposing to buy the land to save her family’s legacy. Marnie and Alice will become reacquainted with each other’s deeply held secrets, uncertain pasts, and hopeful futures. Hunter, a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship recipient, explores the emotional frontiers of a family struggling to make a home in the vastness of the American landscape with affection, poignancy, and a profound sense of empathy.
CLARKSTON:Jake meets Chris when they are assigned to the same night shift at Costco in Clarkston, Washington. Chris has a hard life; his mom is a meth addict, and living in Clarkston has forced him down a dead-end road. He has promise, but he’s “stuck.” Jake went to a liberal arts school, is gay and out, but fled his Connecticut town when he was diagnosed with a fatal illness. Wanting to see the ocean, he came to Clarkston, but was sidetracked by his illness. He and Chris form an awkward bond: both are gay, but have led completely different lives. Can they learn to help each other?
History
Keywords
Performing Groups
- Time Period Present Day
- Setting Rural American towns.
- Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
- Duration More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
- Cautions
- Drugs
- Mild Adult Themes
Media
“Realizes swatches of modern-day life with devastating, but often hilarious, accuracy.” - The Daily Beast
“Something beautiful beyond dispute that unites us as Americans, and as all people living here.” - New York Stage Review
“Chamber theatre of the most deeply moving kind. By the evening's end, you'll have a palpable sense of having shared something special with your fellow theatergoers.” - The Hollywood Reporter
“A tight, observant vignette that realizes swatches of modern-day life with devastating, but often hilarious, accuracy.” - The Daily BeastLicensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £85 per performance plus VAT when applicable.