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Long Time Since Yesterday
Long Time Since Yesterday
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Author: P.J. Gibson Publisher: Samuel French (cover image may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 108 Pub. Date: 2010 Edition: Acting Edition ISBN-10: 0573630267 ISBN-13: 9780573630262 Cast Size: 8 female
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About
the Play:
Long Time Since Yesterday has long been a favourite of acting teachers for
Female Monologues, Male Monologues, and 4 Person Scenes.
Long Time Since Yesterday is a full-length drama by P.J.
Gibson. The story of five
African American sorority sisters who reunite at the funeral of
their friend and cope
with their life struggles as they embrace years of past realities. Long Time Since Yesterday is a
literate, humorous, sensitive look at the lives of contemporary Black
women. The play features wonderful roles for actresses. A Long Time Since Yesterday concerns the lives of six upper-middle-class black college friends at a reunion eighteen years after graduation. Set in suburban New Jersey in the early 1980's, this
potent drama is about a reunion of former college classmates, now in
their thirties, at the funeral of a friend who killed herself. These
women are prosperous, professional Black women who have gone through
the 1960s and come out on top of the 1980s. At the wake, over bourbon and memories, tempers flare and guilt is apportioned, as they
confront the truth about their own lives and about the suicide which
has again brought them together. A Long Time Since Yesterday
creates a powerful drama about sex, race, politics
and gender.
Long Time Since Yesterday premiered
in 1985 at the New Federal Theatre in New York and earned multiple AUDELCO awards, including Best Drama. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and has been
performed in regional,
college, and community theatre productions.
Cast: 8 female
About the Playwright:
P.J. Gibson is an award-winning African American author,
playwright, and teacher. Her plays and poetry performances have been
presented throughout America, Europe, and Africa. In addition to her
writing, she is a Full Professor of English at John Jay College of
Criminal Justice in New York City where she teaches Literature,
English, Fiction Writing, and Poetry courses. |
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