Paris (Booth)

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Paris (Booth)

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  3w, 4m

Eboni Booth

Eboni Booth's off-Broadway hit is a fierce, funny and subtle look at working-class America, exploring the erasure of race in the face of self-preservation in a rural community.

Image: 2020 Atlantic Theater Company Production (Ahron R. Foster)

Paris (Booth)

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 4m
  • Duration
    Duration
    90 minutes
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary
Emmie is one of the only Black people living in Paris, Vermont, and she desperately needs a job. When she is hired at Berry’s, a store off the interstate selling everything from baby carrots to lawnmowers, she begins to understand a new kind of isolation. Paris is a play about invisibility, being underpaid, and how it feels to work on your feet for ten hours a day.
History
Paris premiered off-Broadway at Atlantic Theatre Company on January 8, 2020. Directed by Knud Adams, the production featured Jules Latimer, Ann McDonough, Bruce McKenzie, James Murtaugh, Danielle Skraastad and Christopher Dylan White.
Keywords
Performing Groups
  • Time Period 1990s
  • Setting Berry’s, a large store off the interstate in a small Vermont town. Christmas time, 1995.
  • Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
  • Additional Features No Intermission
  • Duration 90 minutes

Media

“Racism is a stealth force in Eboni Booth’s astute and coolly observant new play... Simple yet startling.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times

★★★★ “A remarkable new play! Part workplace comedy, part social thriller. Booth’s deft and delicate hand cuts with slow deliberation until it reaches the bone.” – Naveen Kumar, Time Out New York

“Racism is a stealth force in Eboni Booth’s astute and coolly observant new play. A solid addition to the genre of sociologically detailed working-class American dramas. Simple yet startling.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times

“A fierce distillation of life under modern precarity. The chill of this show went so deep... hilarious and dangerous.” – Helen Shaw, New York Magazine

“A lean and impressive debut... Each character is both sharply written and played. Paris will transport you to a place that comes to feel as intimate and epic as the city with which it shares its name.” – Tim Teeman, The Daily Beast

★★★★ – Stanford Friedman, New York Theatre Guide

“Beguiling!” – Zachary Stewart, TheaterMania

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    Image: 2020 Atlantic Theater Company Production (Ahron R. Foster)

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Eboni Booth

Eboni Booth
Eboni Booth is a writer and actor from New York City. Her play Paris had its premiere at the Atlantic Theater Company. Eboni is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and a recipient of a Steinberg Playwright Award, a Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting, and a John Gassner a ...
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