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Our Lady of 121st Street

Our Lady of 121st Street
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
Author: Stephen Adly Guirgis
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change)
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 58
Pub. Date: 2004
Edition: Acting
ISBN-10: 0822219654
ISBN-13: 9780822219651
Cast Size: 4 female, 8 male

About the Play:

Our Lady of 121st Street has long been a favourite of acting teachers for Male Monologues, Female/Male Scenes, and Male/Male Scenes.

Our Lady of 121st Street is a full-length comedy by Stephen Adly Guirgis. Set in the Ortiz Funeral home in Harlem, Our Lady of 121st Street tells the funny and touching story of a group of friends who are reunited after the death of Sister Rose, a much feared but beloved nun from their childhood. As the group reconnects, they must confront the reality that who they have become isn’t necessarily who they had intended to be. Hilarious, raunchy, and ultimately very touching.

Our Lady of 121st Street follows a group of acquaintances who find themselves reunited at the funeral of a beloved teacher from their childhood. As they bounce off of each other with old hurts and the harsh realities of grown-up life, a murder mystery (and a few lives) begins to unravel. The Ortiz Funeral Room is in big trouble: The body of beloved community activist and nun Sister Rose has been stolen from the viewing room, and waiting for her proper return are some of New York City's most emotionally charged, life-challenged neighbourhood denizens, trying to find a place to put their grief, checkered pasts and their uncertain futures. Among the equally hilarious and tragic twelve characters, you'll meet Rooftop, a chronically unfaithful but otherwise popular Los Angeles DJ, looking to reconcile with the love of his life; Pinky and Edwin, two brothers tragically linked forever; and the outrageously angry Norca, who doesn't let the fact that she slept with her best friend's husband deter her from the full expectation of being immediately forgiven of her sin by her best friend, Inez, still in pain fifteen years later. The rest of the crowd in this dark, insightful and very funny comedy inevitably square off on each other, motivated by rage, pain and a scary desire to come clean – perhaps for the first time. With trademark intensity, Stephen Adly Guirgis brings a unique, urban style to this moving and hilarious story about the power of responsibility.

Our Lady of 121st Street opened to considerable acclaim in 2003 Off-Off-Broadway at New York's LAByrinth Theater Company, and then transferred to Off-Broadway's largest venue, the Union Square Theatre. It was directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman and received Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle Best Play Nominations. 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: 4 female, 8 male

What people say:

"A scorching and dark new comedy…Mr. Guirgis has one of the finest imaginations for dialogue to come along in years." — The New York Times

"Stephen Guirgis may be the best playwright in America under forty." — New York Magazine

About the Playwright:

Stephen Adly Guirgis is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor. Born and raised in New York City by an Irish-American mother and Egyptian father, he studied theatre at the State University of New York in Albany before being recruited by John Ortiz and Philip Seymour Hoffman to join New York City's non-profit LAByrinth Theater Company, of which he later became a co-artistic director. His screenwriting credits have included TV shows such as NYPD Blue and The Sopranos, and his play Between Riverside and Crazy won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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