Getting Near to Baby
By Y York. Adapted from the Newbery Honor Book by Audrey Couloumbis.
Product Code: GA6000
Full-length Play
Drama
Cast size: 2m., 6w.
Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Awards: The Charlotte B. Chorpenning Playwright Award | AATE Distinguished Play Award
Rights and availability
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Canada, United States
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Synopsis
Twelve-year-old Willa Jo Dean and 7-year-old Little Sister Dean are reeling from the death of their baby sister, Baby. Little Sister's torment is so profound that she has stopped talking. The girls have come to stay with Aunt Patty so that their mom can recover, but Aunt Patty is unused to the messy human ways of little girls and finds Little Sister's silence intolerable. Aunt Patty's rules and regulations finally drive the sisters to the roof, where they hope to escape her laws while at the same time getting nearer to their departed baby sister.
Notes
Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Details
- Status In stock
- Type of Show Full-length Play
- Product Code GA6000
- Minimum Cast Size 8
- Pages of Dialogue 72
- Min. Royalty Rate $90.00/perf
- Approx. Run Time 90 min
- Staging Area staging.
Categories
- Target Audience Middle School | College and Adult | Family (all ages)
- Performing Group Middle School | High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre | TYA
- Genre Drama
- ISBN(13) 9781583427200
Customer Reviews
Hints, Tips, and Tricks
For the gnomes, we painted different sized rehearsal cubes to look like benches (gnomes holding a little cement pedestal overhead). If you aren't able to have a set with a roof they can stand on, you'll need to get creative with staging. We referred to the novel for clarification on Aunt Patty snapping her shorts.
Media Reviews
"[Getting Near to] Baby … starkly illustrates the divide between childhood intentions and adult interpretations … the right book-turned-play to help launch a searching child's own journey and make it just a little less lonely." -Philadelphia Inquirer"Getting Near to Baby deals with the breadth of children's loss, grief and capacity to overcome tragedy with so much wisdom, humor and sensitivity that nothing but good conversation can come of any adult and child viewing it together, whether they've faced loss yet or not." -Seattleschild.com
Production Map
| Location | City | State | Opens | Closes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Langworthy Theatre | Greeley | CO | 04/24/2025 | 04/27/2025 |
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