Br'er Cotton
by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm

Br'er Cotton Book Cover
Br'er Cotton Cover

Highlights

120 minsPresent DayRole(s) for Black Actor(s)Unit Set/Multiple SettingsContemporary Costumes/Street ClothesComedy

Awards & Recognition

KCACTF: Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival New Play

Synopsis

Br'er Cotton; A scorching play about a fourteen-year-old boy struggling to make sense of his place in an impoverished world filled with seemingly random killings of young black men.

Press Reviews

"Powerful... Chisholm’s writing is light and naturalistic when it needs to be, but also shot through with knotty and impassioned poetry."

— TimeOut London

"The script is bold, brave and very, very funny, as well as feeling impressively fast-paced for a production that runs for two hours and 15 minutes."

— The Guardian

"Extraordinary... an intricate consideration of the complexities of present-tense race relations."

— WhatsOnStage

"Painful and highly personal... But it’s funny, too. Laugh-out-loud funny. The writing doesn’t shy away from life’s absurdity and ironies."

— Exeunt Magazine

Characters

Character
Nadine / Mother

Early 30's, F, Black

Matthew / Grandfather

60's, M, Black

Caged_Bird99

14, F, White

Officer

Mid 30's, M, White

Redneck_Swag

Disembodied white voice

Ruffrino / Son

14, M, Black

Publication

Year2018
BindingPaperback
ISBN-139780573708954
ISBN-100573708959

Br'er Cotton is a comedy play written by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm and published by Nick Hern Books (2018).

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Nick Hern Books · 2018

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