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Tomorrowland

Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy  /  4w, 3m

Anna has left graduate school to join the real world, as a writer on a children's television show in Orlando, Florida, she finds that world to be more surreal and absurd than anything she's left behind.

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    4w, 3m
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Teen (Age 14 - 18)

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Summary
Anna has left graduate school to join the real world, as a writer on a children's television show in Orlando, Florida, she finds that world to be more surreal and absurd than anything she's left behind. Tomorrowland takes a darkly comic look at death, Disney, and the search for meaning in a world that worships the young and the fake.
History
Tomorrowland premiered at the New Georges Theatre in New York City under the direction of Maria Mileaf. 
ANNA - a writer, 30 (just) , deep into existential  irony.
WYATT - Anna's boss, at least 40s, former writer now wheeler dealer.
VICKI -20S, earnest, a theme park  princess who grew up on the wrong side of the orange groves.
CARL - A director who is going places, 30s, biracial
RODGER - An obessed fan, 18 going on 13.
DELL - A fan, Rodger's mother. 
EMILY - A voice, a child star at the end of childhood, 13 going on 18, 
  • Time Period Present Day
  • Setting

    A television studion in a theme park in Orlando, Florida.

    The present tense. 

  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

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REVIEWS

"Briskly hilarious comedy about a brittle New Yorker who abandons her doctoral dissertation on Virginia Woolf's use of parenthesis to write scripts for kid's TV show. "– Bob Mondello, Washington City Paper

"If you are not already terrified by the prospect of the Disneyfication of America, this wry exploration of its possible effects will put the fear of Mickey in you." – Charlie Whitehead, Time Out

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Authors

Neena Beber

Neena Beber’s plays include Jump/Cut, The Dew Point, Tomorrowland, and A Common Vision, all published by Samuel French; her one-act Misreadings premiered at the Humana Festival and has been produced around the world. Recipient of an Obie Grant, a Weissberger Award, a MacDowel ...
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