Floor Above the Roof
Play Description
Set in the elevator lobby of a wholesale warehouse in Manhattan, four workers struggle to understand themselves and their world.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (4 male, multiethnic cast)Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
- Reviews
- About the Author(s)
- About the Book
- Special Notes
Press Quotes
“Daniel Therriault’s FLOOR ABOVE THE ROOF brings together four laborers in a Manhattan warehouse. The playwright touches some sensitive issues: black-white antagonism, ethnic strife, resentment of immigrants … But his real interest is in how men deal with their hunger for women, a hunger that drives all four of his characters, from a drunken Lothario who has been tossed out by his lover to an elevator operator who loves all women and regrets only that there is not time to make love to them all.” —D J R Bruckner, New York Times
Author(s)
Daniel TherriaultDaniel Therriault is a screenwriter, playwright, and adjunct professor of screenwriting at NYU. HBO movie: First Time Felon. Plays: BATTERY. FLOOR ABOVE THE ROOF. Writing film The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Hall.
Special Notes
If original stage producers credits appear in bold below, all licensees are required to include them in the following form on the title page in all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play and in all advertising in which the full cast appears in size of type not less than ten percent (10%) of the size of the title of the Play:
Originally co-produced by the Victory Gardens and Body Politic Theaters in Chicago
Produced in New York by the Working Theater at the Henry Street Settlement
In addition, the following must appear within all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play:
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypub.com