Jonah

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Jonah

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  1w, 3m

Rachel Bonds

Ana is deeply alone at boarding school until she crosses paths with day student Jonah. But as they navigate their new relationship, exultant desire shifts into more complex negotiations of intimacy and survival.

Image: 2024 Roundabout Theatre Company Production (Joan Marcus)

Jonah

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    1w, 3m
  • Duration
    Duration
    105 Minutes
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult
Accolades
Accolades
  • Winner! 2024 Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award

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Summary
Ana is on scholarship at a boarding school far from home, deeply and distinctly alone until she crosses paths with day student Jonah. They navigate the edges of this new relationship, tentative and heady, but something else is stirring – what begins as an exploration of new, exultant desire shifts into more complex negotiations of intimacy and survival. A story of fracture and resilience, what bodies carry and what they can release, and the radical possibilities of trust.
History
Jonah premiered off-Broadway at Roundabout Theatre on 11 January 2024. Directed by Tony Award winner Danya Taymor, the production featured Gabby Beans, Hagan Oliveras, Samuel H. Levine and John Zdrojeski.
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Performing Groups

ANA – Ages 16 through later 30s/40
JONAH – 17
DANNY – Ages 17 through early 20s
STEVEN – Later 30s or early 40s

  • Time Period Contemporary, New Millennium/21st Century
  • Setting A series of bedrooms. Present day and the past.
  • Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
  • Additional Features No Intermission
  • Duration 105 Minutes
  • Cautions
    • Intense Adult Themes
    • Strong Language
    • Suicide

Media

“A slip-slidey, stunning new play. Practically humming with tension.” – The New York Times

“Always fascinating – an experiment in disorientation that is never less than very absorbing thanks to Bonds’ extraordinary gift for language.” – The Wrap

“A slip-slidey, stunning new play. Practically humming with tension. The kind of play that reveals itself slowly but entirely, without undermining its own considerable power by wrapping anything up neatly.” – The New York Times

“Well-composed… a worthy look at the stories we tell ourselves.” – Theatrely

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  • Jonah

    Image: 2024 Roundabout Theatre Company Production (Joan Marcus)

  • Jonah

    Image: 2024 Roundabout Theatre Company Production (Joan Marcus)

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Authors

Rachel Bonds

Rachel Bonds

Rachel Bonds is a playwright, screenwriter, essayist and writer for scripted podcasts. Her plays have been developed or produced by Roundabout Theatre Company, Ars Nova, MCC, Manhattan Theatre Club, Atlantic Theater Company, The McCarter, The Geffen Playhouse, South Coast Rep ...

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