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Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  3w, 3m

Julie Marie Myatt

When U.S. Marine Jenny Sutter returns from Iraq, she lays down her rifle but isn't ready to pick up her children.

Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 3m
  • Duration
    Duration
    90 minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Not Applicable
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Teen (Age 14 - 18)

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Summary
When U.S. Marine Jenny Sutter returns from Iraq, she lays down her rifle but isn't ready to pick up her children. Buying some time, Jenny takes a one-way trip to a misfit desert community called Slab City, where its kind residents gently nurture her wounded spirit, and nudge her back to her own humanity.  
History

Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter premeired in Ashland, Oregon with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in February of 2008 under the direction of Jessica Thebus.

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Performing Groups
Jenny Sutter - thirty, African-American
Hugo - mid-twenties
Louise (Lou) - mid-forties
Cheryl - mid to late fifties
Donald - mid-thirties
Buddy - mid-forties. Physically handicapped - body bent awkwardly sideways.
  • Time Period Present Day
  • Duration 90 minutes
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

Media

REVIEWS

"It is a genuine slice-of-life, engaging from the start." - Mercury News, Read More 

"This is by no means the only play looking at the difficulties of re-integration faced by members of the Armed Services, but it is one that approaches the issue with a particularly restrained kind of dignity and that, as a consequence, rings very true." - Chicago Tribune, Read More 

"…powerful…poignant..." - Journal Sentinel, Read More 

"Part of that success...is also due to the artistic restraint with which Myatt treats the issue, and her success in interweaving the traumas resulting from war with more domestic forms of post-traumatic stress." SF Gate, Read More 


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Julie Marie Myatt

Julie Marie Myatt
Julie Marie Myatt’s play, Someday, about reproductive rights in Los Angeles, was commissioned by Cornerstone Theatre Company and recently premiered this June as part of their 3-year Justice Cycle. Her play Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter premiered at Oregon Shakespeare Festival in ...
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