Kindness
by Adam Rapp

Name: Kindness
Brand: Adam Rapp
SKU: 9780573696800
Rating: 3.87 (30 reviews)

Highlights

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120 minsPresent DayRole(s) for Black Actor(s)Interior SetContemporary Costumes/Street ClothesComedy

Synopsis

An ailing mother and her teenaged son flee Illinois and a crumbling marriage for the relative calm and safety of a midtown Manhattan hotel.

Mom holds tickets to a popular musical about love among bohemians.

Her son isn't interested, so Mom takes the kindly cabdriver instead, while the boy entertains a visitor from down the hall, an enigmatic, potentially dangerous young woman.

Kindness is a play about the possibility of sympathy in a harsh world and the meaning of mercy in the face of devastating circumstances.

Press Reviews

"Rapp has raised some provocative questions about the prickly mother/son relationship he has drawn in such detail."
— Variety

"Adam Rapp can write dense, tense, funny dialogue."
— The New York Times

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Maryanne late forties, Dennis' mother	female	—	late forties, Dennis' mother
Herman African American, mid fifties	—	—	African American, mid fifties
Frances a young woman	female	—	a young woman
Dennis 17	—	—	17