Pastoralia
Adapted by Yehuda Duenyas from the novella by George Saunders.
Product Code: PB4000
Full-length Play
Cast size: 5m., 3w. with doubling. May be further doubled to 3m., 2w. or expanded to 8m., 5w.
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Synopsis
Pastoralia brings to the stage New York Times best-selling author George Saunders' heartbreaking and hilarious vision of betrayal, loyalty and humiliation in a decaying American theme park. In a twisted yet recognizable version of corporate life, Ed and Janet work as cavemen re-enactors in a second-rate Disney-like amusement park teetering on the brink of financial ruin. Both have family troubles back home and are desperate to keep their jobs in the face of company-wide layoffs and morally dubious practices. It's the 21st century of corporate bosses, fax machines, drugs and tourists, a dystopia that explodes with dark wit and razor-sharp intelligence.
Notes
No Livestream or Record and Stream Rights Available
Details
- Status In stock
- Type of Show Full-length Play
- Product Code PB4000
- Minimum Cast Size 5
- Pages of Dialogue 56
- Min. Royalty Rate $85.00/perf
- Approx. Run Time 90 min
- Staging Area staging.
Categories
- ISBN(13) 9781583425459
Media Reviews
"[A] high concept … quirky and enchanting new play … uniformly brilliant performers … [An] irony-laden, sensitive comedy." -Time Out New York"Pastoralia is quintessential George Saunders the fiction writer's allegory of the cave as totally American workplace hell … [A] wickedly potent stage transfer … hilarious flights of linguistic fancy … [McCormick and Bronz] give Pastoralia its soul … dazzling humor ineluctably gives way to an unflinching wordless take on those who put money over people … chilling … excellently unctuous and evil." -The Village Voice
"A deadpan delight—Top 10 of 2005!" -Time Out New York
"A potent, funny adaptation of George Saunders' biting novella … both heartbreaking and—despite the bizarre backdrop—acutely familiar." -The New Yorker
"Bizarre … jarring … funny … this stage adaptation of George Saunders' brilliantly entertaining and brazenly off-kilter novella [is] … inspired … Director and adaptor Yehuda Duenyas, a founder of the National Theater of the United States of America, creates a … heartbreaking … and absurd comic style." -The New York Times
"Wickedly entertaining … Pastoralia is a Dilbert cartoon inked by Samuel Beckett." -San Francisco Chronicle
"Saunders has an ear for everything fraudulent and insidiously illogical about corporate America, and Duenyas … a master of intellectual slapstick … has a reputation for bringing the illogical to life. Be forewarned: the absurdist take on corporate life—although set in a papier mâché cave—here may seem to you too true." -New York Press
"Screamingly funny." -Time
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