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  • Hunting and Gathering
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    Hunting and Gathering

    Brooke Berman
    Trade Edition$15.95
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    Named one of the Ten Best Plays of 2008 by New York Magazine

    Play Description

    Four New Yorkers seek shelter, both physical and spiritual, in a variety of temporary abodes and in one another in this dark comedy.

    Production Info

    Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 85 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
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    “As every young, single New Yorker quickly learns, real estate is destiny in this town, a fact of urban life that Brooke Berman addresses with bracing wit and intelligence in HUNTING AND GATHERING. The four attractive players in this droll comedy think of their fly-by-night housing accommodations as proof of an independent spirit. Little do they realize, until the scribe plays her romantic trump card, that their loose living conditions more accurately expose their fears of emotional commitment. Character insights are comic, but never cruel, revealed in clever dialogue and delivered in sharp style by a crackerjack cast. Comedy with a point … Berman wastes no time exercising the satirical verbal wit that has already opened doors for her with savvy institutional theaters like Second Stage and Steppenwolf. Plot-wise, the play raises essentially the same concerns as any romantic comedy — who will end up with whom and why should we care? But in re-casting the old relationship questions as real-estate issues — who will move in with whom and what will be the price of this commitment? — Berman finds a fresh and funny way of looking at the mortal terrors of being young and on your own in a bewildering existential landscape.” —Marilyn Stasio, Variety

    Author(s)

    • Brooke Berman

      Brooke Berman is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Originally trained as an actor and solo performer in the experimental theater, Brooke began performing her own work on the Lower East Side of Manhattan before receiving formal training in playwriting from the Juilliard School. Her play HUNTING AND GATHERING, which premiered at Primary Stages, directed by Leigh Silverman, was named one of the Ten Best of 2008 by New York Magazine. Her memoir, No Place Like Home, will be published by Random House in June, 2010. Brooke's plays have been produced and developed across the US at theaters including: Primary Stages, The Second Stage, Steppenwolf, The Play Company, Soho Rep, Williamstown Theater Festival, Naked Angels, MCC, WET, SPF, New Dramatists, New Georges, The Hourglass Group and the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. In the UK, her work has been developed at The Royal Court Theatre, The National Theatre Studio and Pentabus. Plays include: HUNTING AND GATHERING (Primary Stages); SMASHING (The Play Company, The O'Neill); UNTIL WE FIND EACH OTHER (Steppenwolf, The O'Neill); THE TRIPLE HAPPINESS (Second Stage), SAM AND LUCY (SPF, Cleveland Playhouse), A PERFECT COUPLE (WET), OUT OF THE WATER (Cape Cod Theater Project, ARS Nova), CASUAL ENCOUNTERS (New Dramatists Creativity Fund) and others. Her plays are published by Broadway Play Publishing, Playscripts, The Backstage Books and Smith & Kraus. Brooke is the recipient of a Berilla Kerr Award, a Helen Merrill Award, two Francesca Primus Awards, two LeCompte du Nuoy awards and a commissioning grant from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. She recently completed a seven-year residency at New Dramatists, where she served on the Board of Directors and developed countless plays. She has received support for her work from the MacDowell Colony and the Corporation of Yaddo and commissions from Arielle Tepper Productions and CTC in Minneapolis. Her short play DANCING WITH A DEVIL was a co-winner of The Heideman Award at Actors Theater of Louisville in 1999, presented in "Life Under 30" at the Humana Festival, and nominated for an American Theater Critics Best New Play award. It has been published in numerous anthologies. Her short play DEFUSION has been produced in a number of festivals and as part of Christine Jones's Theater for One project at New York Theatre Workshop. Brooke's short film All Saints Day, directed by Will Frears, won Best Narrative Short at the Savannah Film Festival and played at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008. Other screenwriting credits include MAJOR MINOR DETAILS, the adaptation of her play SMASHING, and the adaptation of Jane Hamilton's novel, DISOBEDIENCE. Brooke has taught as a guest artist in the New York City public school system and at colleges including Eugene Lang, Fordham, and Barnard, as well as privately through the "24 With 5 Teaching Collective" which she co-created at New Dramatists. She spent five years as the Director of the Playwrights Unit for MCC Theater's Youth Company, a free after-school program for NYC youth. She has mentored with the Young Storytellers Foundation in Los Angeles and Young Playwrights in New York. Brooke attended Barnard College and is a graduate of The Juilliard School. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, PEN and the MCC Playwrights Coalition.

    Book Information

    PublisherBPPI
    Publication Date1/1/2009
    Pages62
    ISBN9780881454055

    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:

    First produced by Primary Stages, New York

    In addition, the following must appear within all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play:

    Hunting and Gathering is produced
    by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
    www.broadwayplaypub.com

    Production Video and Stills

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    HUNTING AND GATHERING at Rep Stage in Columbia, Maryland, 2016.


    Hunting and Gathering Picture 1

    Katie Tkel as Ruth and Daniel Corey as Astor in the Rep Stage production. Photo by Katie Simmons-Barth.


    Hunting and Gathering Picture 2

    Daniel Corey as Astor and Rex Daugherty as Jesse in the Rep Stage production. Photo by Katie Simmons-Barth.


    Hunting and Gathering Picture 3

    Katie Tkel as Ruth, Alina Collins Maldonado as Bess, Daniel Corey as Astor, and Rex Daugherty as Jesse in the Rep Stage production. Photo by Katie Simmons-Barth.

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