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Dust

  • Billy Goda
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 4M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573696527

Great theatre! It's fun, it's exciting, it makes you understand why theater is so special.

WOR Radio

Thrills in Dust! Excellent acting and writing laced in mordant humor.

Associated Press

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 105 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult, Senior

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
Dust is an edge-of-your-seat thriller. Martin is an executive with money and a paunch. Zeke, a gifted young man torn down by drugs, is an ex-con with street smarts and a minimum wage position. Early one morning, in the fitness center of the Essex House, a battle-of-wills begins over the most trivial of requests. 

As described in The New York Times review: 'Verbal sparring turns angry, posturing leads to entrenched positions, and out of nothing - out of dust - a grudge match is born.' Once Martin's daughter Jenny becomes entangled, the stakes are raised even higher - escalating a war for respect into one for revenge and ultimately survival. Who will be standing when the dust settles?
REVIEWS:

Dust begins with a struggle over power and respect. Verbal sparring turns angry, posturing leads to entrenched positions, and out of nothing – out of dust – a grudge match is born. Billy Goda tells his story in short, sharp scenes, each with a clear dramatic idea.

The New York Times

NYC THEATRE PICK

Newsday

Great theatre! It's fun, it's exciting, it's electric, it makes you understand why theater is so special.

WOR Radi o

Thrills in Dust! Excellent acting and writing laced in mordant humor.

Associated Press

Billy Goda's Dust revives the potboiler thriller!... Critic's Pick!

Backstage
Premiere Production: Dust was first presented by Roger Alan Gindi and Cassidy Productions Off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre, Downstairs, in New York City on November 18th, 2008. It was directed by Scott Zigler.

Characters

  • Casting: 4M, 1F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible)
  • Casting Notes: Five actors are needed for this play:
    Bobby and Digs can be played by the same actor.
    Ralph and Tyler can be played by the same actor.

  • ZEKE CATCHMAN – a volatile, yet likable, thirty year-old man; well-built and can handle himself in a confrontation
    MARTIN STONE – an overweight man in his early sixties; a very wealthy man who is used to getting what he wants; troubled by his declining health
    JENNY STONE (Martin’s daughter) – a thin, attractive nineteen-year-old girl; has the unusual combination of kindness and biting sarcasm
    BOBBY LAWTON – a thirty year-old black man who is a parole officer; a sincere, honest man
    RALPH – a confident, large man in his late thirties; Martin’s body guard
    DIGS – a black man in his late twenties; a drug dealer who finds humor in most situations
    TYLER – a large man who is out to intimidate

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    Dust is an edge-of-your-seat thriller. Martin is an executive with money and a paunch. Zeke, a gifted young man torn down by drugs, is an ex-con with street smarts and a minimum wage position. Early one morning, in the fitness center of the Essex House, a battle-of-wills begins over the most trivial of requests. As described in The New York Times review: 'Verbal sparring turns angry, posturing leads to entrenched positions, and out of nothing - out of dust - a grudge match is born.' Once Martin's daughter Jenny becomes entangled, the stakes are raised even higher - escalating a war for respect into one for revenge and ultimately survival. Who will be standing when the dust settles?

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