Massacre (Sing to Your Children)
Play Description
Set in a small New Hampshire town where seven friends conspire to murder their mysterious neighbor Joe. On the night of the killing, as they confront the many meanings of their crime and finally relax and laugh and love again … there’s a knock on their door.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)Full Length Drama (about 150 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
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Press Quotes
“José Rivera’s new drama MASSACRE (SING TO YOUR CHILDREN) has both the visceral thrill of Stephen King and the eerie magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The playwright takes a group of everyday people, living in a typical small town, and plops them into a fever dream of hatred, retribution and regeneration … [a] darkly comic play …” —Mary Houlihan, Sun-Times (Chicago)
“… there’s also downright militancy and politically charged passion in Rivera’s MASSACRE really is one of those difficult Rorschach Tests-of-a-play whose narrative loopiness, supernatural meanings and political allegory will haunt and confound each audience member in a different way …” —Fabrizio O Almeida, Newcity
Book Information
Publisher | BPPI |
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Publication Date | 8/1/2007 |
Pages | 80 |
ISBN | 9780881458336 |
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:
Commissioned and workshopped by the LAByrinth Theater Company, New York
World premiere: Teatro Vista & the Goodman, Chicago
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