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Queen

  • Madhuri Shekar
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 2M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573708664

How far will you go to defend your ethics and standards of integrity, and at what cost? A play about the pursuit of truth, relationships and bees.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 90 minutes

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

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Original Full Length Script (2019)
Sanam Shah, a mathematician, and Ariel Spiegel, a biologist, are Ph.D. candidates and best friends working together to discover the cause of colony collapse disorder – the urgent, ecological crisis where bees are disappearing around the world in alarming numbers. Just as they are about to publish a career-defining new paper on the subject, calling for a ban on commercial pesticides, Sanam realizes that the numbers don’t add up to support their conclusion. Should she look the other way for the sake of environmental action, or should she stand by her scientific principles, even if it means ceding ground to an ecological disaster, jeopardizing her career and losing her best friend?

Madhuri Shekar's Queen made The Kilroys List of new plays by woman, trans and non-binary authors of color in 2017.
REVIEWS:

"Intriguing, funny, and highly relevant."

 TheaterJones

"Shekar is a brainy and entertaining writer... This timely story about the interplay of science, conscience and the heart offers a most winning test case."

 Chicago Sun-Times

"Two powerhouse women fighting convention and fighting for what they want. We see them for the complex individuals they are... Queen lifts up women in a way that's intellectual and passionate."

 PerformInk

Premiere Production: Queen was first produced by Victory Gardens (Chay Yew, Artistic Director; Erica Daniels, Executive Director) in Chicago, Illinois on April 14, 2017.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Role(s) for Asian Actor(s)

  • SANAM SHAH - Indian. An applied mathematician about to graduate from a Ph.D. program in ecology.
    ARIEL SPIEGEL - White. A Ph.D. ecology researcher and single mom.
    ARVIND PATEL - Indian-American. A financier from New York. A potential suitor for Sanam.
    DR. PHILLIP HAYES - Late 40s/Early 50s. White. Ariel and Sanam's supervising professor.

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    Sanam Shah, a mathematician, and Ariel Spiegel, a biologist, are Ph.D. candidates and best friends working together to discover the cause of colony collapse disorder – the urgent, ecological crisis where bees are disappearing around the world in alarming numbers. Just as they are about to publish a career-defining new paper on the subject, calling for a ban on commercial pesticides, Sanam realizes that the numbers don’t add up to support their conclusion. Should she look the other way for the sake of environmental action, or should she stand by her scientific principles, even if it means ceding ground to an ecological disaster, jeopardizing her career and losing her best friend?

    Madhuri Shekar's Queen made The Kilroys List of new plays by woman, trans and non-binary authors of color in 2017.

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