Detroit
by Lisa D'amour

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Highlights

120 mins Unit Set/Multiple Settings American Comedy

Awards & Recognition

Pulitzer Prize

Finalist: 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Synopsis

In a first-ring suburb just outside a city that might be Detroit, Ben and Mary see sudden signs of life at the deserted house next door and invite their new neighbors Sharon and Kenny over for a barbecue.

As the action unfolds we learn that Sharon and Kenny met at rehab, neither is employed, and they don't own a stick of furniture.

The quintessential American back-yard party turns quickly turns into something more dangerous-and filled with potential

Press Reviews

"Sly, timely and neatly surprising…very much an of-the-moment American play…D'Amour perfectly captures a certain pervasive lifestyle of today: atomized, mediated, ersatz and culturally leveled…cascading, hilarious monologues and minutely calibrated chitchat.“ —Time Out New York. ”A sharp X-ray of the embattled American psyche as well as a smart, tart critique of the country’s fraying social fabric, Ms. D'Amour’s dark comedy is as rich and addictively satisfying as a five-layer dip served up with a brimming bowl of tortilla chips.“ —The New York Times. ”Totally nails the great, deep malaise of middle-class suburbia, with a sustained energy and a wicked eye for telling details…funny as hell.“ —New York Post. ”A tense, terrific, funny new play.“ —New York Observer. ”Savvy, frequently poetic, and ultimately bittersweet…"

— TheaterMania

Publication

Year 2013
Binding Paperback
Pages 63
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822229186
ISBN-10 0822229188
LCC PS3604.A43975 D48 2013
DCC 812.6

Detroit is a American comedy play written by Lisa D'amour and published by Dramatists Play Service (2013).

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