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Sons of the Prophet
Stephen Karam
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Description for Sons of the Prophet
Paperback. "Sons of the Prophet was produced by the Huntington Theatre Company (Peter DuBois, artistic director; Michael Maso, managing director) in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 13, 2011." Num Pages: 94 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 181.
A deeply humorous, unflinching portrait of grief and loss, Sons of the Prophet depicts a Lebanese-American family in rural Pennsylvania beset by an absurd string of tragedies. At the play’s centre is Joseph Douaihy, a once-promising world-class runner now sidelined by injury. As Joseph confronts his deteriorating health, he is also forced to face the death of his father, an ailing Uncle, and a desperate boss beset by her own tragedies. Deftly keeping its various storylines in careful balance, Karam’s play confronts, with abundant intelligence and great sympathy for human frailty, the inevitability of loss and the equally inevitable comedy ... Read more
A deeply humorous, unflinching portrait of grief and loss, Sons of the Prophet depicts a Lebanese-American family in rural Pennsylvania beset by an absurd string of tragedies. At the play’s centre is Joseph Douaihy, a once-promising world-class runner now sidelined by injury. As Joseph confronts his deteriorating health, he is also forced to face the death of his father, an ailing Uncle, and a desperate boss beset by her own tragedies. Deftly keeping its various storylines in careful balance, Karam’s play confronts, with abundant intelligence and great sympathy for human frailty, the inevitability of loss and the equally inevitable comedy ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
110
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810128774
SKU
V9780810128774
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About Stephen Karam
Stephen Karam is the author of Speech & Debate, produced off-Broadway in 2007 by Roundabout Theatre Company as the inaugural production for Roundabout Underground, and the librettist for Dark Sisters, an original chamber opera.
Reviews for Sons of the Prophet
To observe that a play about extreme suffering is also explosively funny might seem absurd. But one of the many soul-piercing truths in Sons of the Prophet, the absolutely wonderful new comedy-drama by Stephen Karam, is that life rarely obeys the rules of dramatic consistency, or, for that matter fair play...And with unerring sensitivity he finds the sweet spot at which ... Read more