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Storefront Church
Storefront Church
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Author: John Patrick Shanley Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 60 Pub. Date: 2013 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0822227649 ISBN-13: 9780822227649 Cast Size: 1 female, 5 male
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About
the Play:
Storefront Church is a full-length drama by John Patrick
Shanley. The story concerns a Bronx borough President who is
forced, by the mortgage crisis into a confrontation with a local
minister. The question they confront is one that faces us all. What
is the relationship between spiritual experience and social action?
Storefront Church explores an evolving conflict among a
Bronx borough President, a mortgage loan officer, a couple losing
their home, and a preacher who opens a storefront church. To survive
the characters must make less than exemplary moral choices. Blending
earthy humour and philosophical reflection, this morality tale
explores the relationship between spiritual experience and social
action. This ambitious and affecting drama by Academy Award- and
Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Patrick Shanley is the
final instalment of his Church and State trilogy, beginning
with the award-winning Doubt and Defiance.
Storefront Church (formerly titled Sleeping Demon)
premiered in 2012 at the
Linda Gross Theater off-Broadway in New York City. Its L.A. area premiere was in
2013 at NoHo Arts Center in North Hollywood.
Cast: 1 female, 5 male
What people say:
"[An] affecting new play about
a handful of Bronx dwellers whose lives become tangled in unexpected
ways when a mortgage goes sour… Mr. Shanley's intense engagement
with questions of religion and ethics, and how they shape the way
people with different perspectives interact, remains distinctive and
invigorating… some of Mr. Shanley's sharpest comic writing in
years." — The New York Times
"John Patrick Shanley
has the gift, always rare among playwrights, of writing scenes
that convey both shape and spontaneity… [Storefront
Church is] a portrait of our puzzling time, when one's
beliefs and one’s sense of self must live under constant pressure
from forces not wholly seen and not yet fully arrived." —
Village Voice
"There's a deeper
philosophical vein that the author mines, allowing his language to
acquire the heft and timbre of a serious moral debate.... We taste
bitterness, but also much that is sweet." — Time Out
New York
About the Playwright:
John Patrick Shanley is an American playwright,
screenwriter, and director. Shanley has written some two dozen
off-Broadway plays since the 1970s, but he is best known for Doubt,
which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award. He has also written
extensively for TV and film, and his credits include the teleplay for
Live from Baghdad and screenplays for Five Corners and
Moonstruck, for which he won an Academy Award for original
screenplay.
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