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Our Lady of 121st Street
Our Lady of 121st Street
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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
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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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