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Farragut North

Farragut North
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
Author: Beau Willimon
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change)
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 70
Pub. Date: 2010
Edition: Acting
ISBN-10: ‎ 0822223570
ISBN-13: 9780822223573
Cast Size: 2 female, 5 male

About the Play:

Farragut North has long been a favourite of acting teachers for Male Monologues, Female/Male Scenes, and Male/Male Scenes.

Farragut North is a full-length drama by Beau Willimon. What happens behind the closed doors of a tight Presidential campaign? An up-and-coming press secretary's career falls prey to the backroom politics of more seasoned operatives. Farragut North is a timely story about the lust for power and the costs one will endure to achieve it.

Farragut North is about behind-the-scenes election intrigue. Stephen Bellamy is a bright young man with a ruthless political ambition. At twenty-five, he is a gifted press secretary who has built a career that men twice his age would envy. He is self-confident, charismatic and strategically brilliant. During a close primary race for the presidency, however, Stephen's meteoric rise falls prey to backroom politics, the manipulations of veteran operatives, and the wiles of a seductive young intern. Can Stephen save his career, and how far will he have to go to do it? Titled after the metrorail stop closest to Washington D.C.'s geographic center for think tanks, lobbyists, power plays and spin-doctoring, Farragut North explores the hubris, loyalty, and lust for power that accompany the drive to win. No trick is too dirty, no lie is too outrageous, no spin is too ingenious if it gets your candidate over the top.

Farragut North premiered in 2008 at the Atlantic Theater Company off-Broadway in New York City and was later adapted into the George Clooney-directed film The Ides of March. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and is regularly performed in regional, college, and community theatre productions.

Cast: 2 female, 5 male

What people say:

"Farragut North is juicy entertainment. [A] whip-smart insider look at the soul-sucking world of political campaigns…the play's taut scenes crackle with pithy talk, gripping plot turns and intriguing revelations." — Variety

"You will find yourself drawn into Farragut North, Beau Willimon's supremely entertaining dissection of the machinations behind getting elected." — Associated Press

"If you think the race for the presidency is over, step into the world of Farragut North. Beau Willimon's juicy and timely drama is a potent reminder that, like Hollywood, politics is a high-stakes game where one wrong liaison can finish you off." — New York Daily News

"Willimon writes freshly about ravenous political appetites. He's attuned to the circuitry of political careerists, to the ego-stroking access they seek and the particular ways they seek it." — Washington Post

About the Playwright:

Beau Willimon is an American playwright and screenwriter. He helped develop the American version of the series House of Cards and served as showrunner for the first four seasons. The Oscar-nominated screenwriter of  The Ides of March, he holds a B.A. from Columbia University and an M.F.A. in playwriting from Columbia University's School of the Arts.