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Peerless

  • Jiehae Park
  • Full Length Play, Dark Comedy, Contemporary
  • 2M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573705878

"Peerless is neither an over-the-top farce nor a moralistic downer. It's frothy fun, full of goofy dancing and awkward romantic fumbles in the classic John Hughes style. Yet Peerless is as scary as it is silly. It's about anger and cruelty and danger and life and death. It's also about coming-of-age and coming to grips with mortality."

Hartford Courant

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dark Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Smoking, Strong Language, Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Asian-American twins M and L have given up everything to get into The College. So when D, a one-sixteenth Native American classmate, gets "their" spot instead, they figure they've got only one option: kill him.

A darkly comedic take on Shakespeare's Macbeth about the very ambitious and the cut-throat world of high school during college admissions.
REVIEWS:

"Peerless is neither an over-the-top farce nor a moralistic downer. It's frothy fun, full of goofy dancing and awkward romantic fumbles in the classic John Hughes style. Yet Peerless is as scary as it is silly. It's about anger and cruelty and danger and life and death. It's also about coming-of-age and coming to grips with mortality."

 Hartford Courant

"[...] a theatrical genre-bending piece [...] Peerless is concerned not only about the broader socio-academic-cultural issue but also the human toll."

 The Berkshire Eagle

"With its staccato rhythms, short scenes, and farcical characters, unlike any you've ever seen before onstage, it's hard to know how to characterize this play, except to say that it's unexpectedly wonderful."

 The Arts Fuse

"[...] suitably spooky, fitfully funny [...]"

 San Diego Union-Tribune

Premiere Production: Peerless premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, CT in November 2015 under the direction of Margot Bordelon.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Role(s) for Black Actor(s), Role(s) for Asian Actor(s)

  • M & L - Twin sisters. Asian.
    BF - M' boyfriend. Black.
    D - Make. Looks (really white. 1/16 Native American.
    DIRTY GIRL - aka Caroline aka That Weird Girl in High School You Know The One.
    D's BROTHER - (doubles with D)
    PREPPY GIRL - (doubles with DIRTY GIRL)

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    Asian-American twins M and L have given up everything to get into The College. So when D, a one-sixteenth Native American classmate, gets "their" spot instead, they figure they've got only one option: kill him.

    A darkly comedic take on Shakespeare's Macbeth about the very ambitious and the cut-throat world of high school during college admissions.

    		$24.95

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