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Jack Was Kind

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  1w

Tracy Thorne

In this intimate 70-minute monologue, a privileged woman defends and explores her role in her husband's illicit behaviour.

"How could you just sit there?" For ten years, that’s what they’ve asked Jack’s wife. Well, now she's talking.

Jack Was Kind

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    1w
  • Duration
    Duration
    75 Minutes
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary

This intimate, confessional story examines long-seated issues of privilege and complicity at the core of America, as well as our current and explosive political moment. Jack Was Kind gives an imagined and painfully human backstory to an actual, American event that will affect the country for generations to come.


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  • Duration 75 Minutes

Media

“Nerve-racking... the portrait of a woman spectacularly ill-informed about herself is at times devastating.” – Jesse Green, The New York Times

“This is a play about complicity — about wives who tend to their husbands’ honor even when they are violent, or otherwise dangerous. But it’s also about the social conditioning that taught those women, when they were girls, to put the menfolk first.” – Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times

“Devastating... Thorne probes the nature of an unfortunately confused wife’s challenge on where she places her loyalty to erring husband Jack and to teenagers Flo and Eli. Within that conundrum is the societal question of a wife’s (sacred?) obligation to a husband, no matter what she knows, or suspects, he’s done.” – NY Stage Review


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Tracy Thorne

Tracy Thorne

Tracy Thorne’s most recent play, Jack Was Kind, was called “a devastating monologue of timelines and Greek drama intensity” and named one of the 10 best solo shows by The New York Times. Her play We Are Here received its world premiere at New York Stage and Film and was nomin ...

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