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Thomas Bradshaw Dark Satire 5m, 3f (Some doubling possible) Modular sets In Purity, a refined and prominent African-American English professor’s life is turned upside down when a new, 'more black' professor is hired in his department and challenges his authenticity, his marriage to a white woman, and his entire way of life. This way of life consists of literature, booze, cocaine binges, and pedophilia. From realism to fantasy, Purity takes us on a journey from the Ivy League to the ante-bellum South to the fields of Ecuador and back again, ending on a note of shocking violence. “Thomas Bradshaw’s “Purity” lures you with a goofy, comic touch, and he and the game, energetic cast can make your laughs catch in your throat.” - The New York Times “Authentically hard-hitting and provoking…… Thomas Bradshaw wants to use the theatre to poke and prod his audience away from complacency and toward social action… It's work that's designed to make us think and feel after we leave the theatre; that's got to be a good thing.” - Nytheatre.com “A whip smart exercise in sublime discomfort….. Squarely confronting social taboos, Purity unabashedly raises incredibly relevant questions about race in contemporary America -- but don't expect Bradshaw to offer any answers. Instead he opens a Pandora's box of power, exploitation, and fantasy, handing it over to us to make of it what we will.” - Backstage “Purity finally achieves the trifecta of what it had been after all along – it frightens, it provokes and it causes contemplation. For those who have pushed through the more repellent moments of Purity, there is something satisfying here.” - American Theatre Web “Vicious and harrowing... a profoundly disturbing play" -New York Sun This play contains scenes of a graphic sexual and violent nature that may not be suitable for all audiences. FEE: $75 per performance.Restrictions currently apply on this title, please inquire for specific details and licensing availability. 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:
CleansedDawn ProphetSouthern Promises Strom Thurmond is Not a Racist
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