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Sick (Dohrn)

Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy  /  2w, 3m

Zayd Dohrn

“Engaging, funny, and sometimes shocking... You’ll find yourself thinking and talking about the play for days.” - Park Cities People

Sick (Dohrn)

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    2w, 3m
  • Duration
    Duration
    90 minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Science Fiction
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult
Accolades
Accolades
  • FINALIST! 2008-2009 Alliance/Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Award
    WINNER! Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Award
    WINNER! 2008 Dallas-Forth Worth Critics Award, Best New Play

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Summary

A college professor brings a student home to meet his dysfunctional family – a home so obsessed with cleanliness that the real dirt lurks around every corner and behind every sentence. Toying with post 9/11 phobias, this dark comedy plays upon our fears, both real and imagined.

 

History

Sick received its world premiere at Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas, Texas, in 2008.

 

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Performing Groups

The Krebs family:
SIDNEY – 49
MAXINE – 46
SARAH – 19
DAVEY – 17

And a guest:
JIM - 26

  • Time Period Contemporary, Present Day, New Millennium/21st Century, The Future
  • Setting

    A Safe Haven on the Lower East Side of Manhattan

  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Additional Features Special Effects
  • Duration 90 minutes
  • Cautions
    • Strong Language

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REVIEWS

“Mr. Dohrn seems destined to become a major American playwright, and Sick is a theatrical fable at once profound and witty… Mr. Dohrn's mastery of theatrical rhetoric brings Mr. Albee to mind… his dialogue has the same tensile strength and the same ferociously quicksilver sense of humor. He can spin a yarn, too… I have the feeling people all over America are going to be talking about Sick.” - Dallas Morning News

“Every bit as loud, stringently funny and darkly disturbing as Albee's George and Martha mayhem… Sick is a stunning piece of theater...[Dohrn] is a young Edward Albee, daring to write humor that hints at danger inside American families.” - Dallas Observer

“Engaging, funny, and sometimes shocking... You’ll find yourself thinking and talking about the play for days.” - Park Cities People

“A sharp, winning satire… a post-modern blending of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with The Glass Menagerie. The play is sharply funny throughout, exuding an irrational sense of fear that adds anxiety to the laughter.” - New Orleans Times-Picayune

Music

  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)

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  • Minimum Fee: $120 per performance

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Authors

Zayd Dohrn

Zayd Dohrn
Zayd Dohrn was born and raised in New York City. His full-length plays include Outside People (The Vineyard Theatre/Naked Angels), Reborning (The Public/SPF) and Sick (Kitchen Dog) – all published by Samuel French – as well as Want (Steppenwolf First Look). His work has been ...
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