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Barbecue
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The O’Mallery’s have gathered in their local park to share some barbecue and straight talk with their sister Barbara, whose spiral of drugs and recklessness has forced her siblings to stage an open-air intervention. But the event becomes raucous and unpredictable as familial stereotypes collide with hard realities, and racial politics slam up against the stories we tell—and maybe even believe—about who we were and who we’ve become.
JAMES T — white male 40/50ish
LILLIE ANNE — white female 50/60ish
BARBARA/ZIPPITY BOOM — white female 30/40ish
MARIE — white female 40/50ish
ADLEAN — white female 40/50ish
JAMES T — black male
LILLIE ANNE — black female
BARBARA – black female
MARIE — black female
ADLEAN – black female
Production Notes:
It is very important that there be No Attempt to make either cast look (physically) like the other, besides wearing the same Costume.
Place
Middle America.
Setting
A pavilion, surrounded by a park.
Time
Now (after and before)
- The New Yorker
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