Sunset Baby
by Dominique Morisseau

Name: Sunset Baby
Brand: Dominique Morisseau
SKU: 9780573702754
Rating: 4.11 (4 reviews)

Sunset Baby Book Cover — Sunset Baby Cover

Highlights

Female

Male

90 minsPresent DayMulticultural CastingInterior SetContemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Synopsis

Kenyatta Shakur is alone.

His wife has died, and this former Black Revolutionary and political prisoner is desperate to reconnect with his estranged daughter, Nina.

If Kenyatta truly wants to reconcile his past, he must first conquer his most challenging revolution of all – fatherhood.

Sunset Baby is an energized, vibrant, and witty look at the point where the personal and political collide.

One of the most exciting and distinctive voices in America.

Press Reviews

"[A] smart and bracing new play about two generations of urban outlaws struggling to stay afloat in the lower depths […] Without ever sounding merely expositional, on the one hand, or dialectical, on the other, [Sunset Baby] covers vast acres of social and political ground. Among the subjects: the parallels between criminal acts in the name of revolutionary change and plain old street crime; the changing and unchanging face of paternal absenteeism; and the toll on trust – and the possibility of love – taken by a culture of survival."
— The New York Times

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Damon Her fast-talking lover and partner in crime.	female	—	Her fast-talking lover and partner in crime.
Kenyatta Shakur Nina’s father and a fabled leader of a black-power underground movement several decades earlier.	male	—	Nina’s father and a fabled leader of a black-power underground movement several decades earlier.
Nina A shrewd drug dealer.	—	—	A shrewd drug dealer.