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Thomas Bradshaw Full Length, Satire 3w, 4m Simple settings A man wakes up one morning and decides he must kill himself. He is angry with himself for not hitting his wife every time she has an independent thought (as Abraham and Moses would have done). After she dies and God reveals to him that he is the new Prophet, the man takes a new wife, dresses her in slave chains, and begins to preach his newfound gospel of male domination. Simultaneously humorous and disturbing, Bradshaw's Prophet explores controversial issues in startling and unexpected ways. “Fasten your seatbelts. PROPHET, Thomas Bradshaw’s lacerating satire,…hurtles from rambunctious mockery to real horror. This is situation satire with a vengeance…”-The New York Times This play contains scenes of a graphic sexual and violent nature that may not be suitable for all audiences. FEE: $75 per performance. About the author:"Provocateur Thomas Bradshaw continues to needle our notions of morality, making us laugh like madmen at things our Internet browsers would flag as porn." —Time Out NY, Best of 2009Thomas Bradshaw has been featured as one of Time Out New York's ten playwrights to watch, as one of Paper Magazine's 2006 Beautiful People, and Best Provocative Playwright by the Village Voice in 2007. His play entitled Prophet was presented at PS 122 in December 2005 and Strom Thurmond is Not a Racist won The American Theater Coop's 2005 National Playwriting Contest. His was a fellow at New York Theater Workshop in 06-07' and is now a Usual Suspect. Cleansed will also be published in Plays and Playwrights 2008. He has been a member of Soho Rep's writer/Director lab as well as Lincoln Center's. He performed in the premiere of Richard Maxwell's The End Of Reality at The Kitchen in January 2006 and he performed in Young Jean Lee's Pullman, WA at PS 122 in March 2005. He performed throughout Europe with The End Of Reality in the fall of 06'. He received his MFA from Mac Wellman's playwriting program and is a Professor at Brooklyn College and Medgar Evers College. Thomas is also the recipient of a 2006 Jerome Foundation Grant. Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist was produced in Los Angeles in June 08' and Thomas's play Dawn will receive a workshop with New York Theater Workshop at Dartmouth College in August. Dawn will also be translated into German and be presented at Theater Bielefeld in Germany in October. His play Purity was published by Theaterheute in Germany in April and his play Dawn will be published by Theater Der Zeit in October. He is currently working on an adaptation of The Book Of Job which has been commissioned by Soho Rep. He is also Soho Rep's 2008-2009 Streslin Fellow and a Playwriting Fellow at The Lark Play Development Center. Mr. Bradshaw was awarded a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship.For more information on this author, please click here to visit our Focus on a Playwright area.Other Thomas Bradshaw titles available from Samuel French include:
CleansedDawnPurity Southern Promises Strom Thurmond is Not a Racist
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