DREAM HOU$E
by Eliana Pipes

Name: DREAM HOU$E
Brand: Eliana Pipes
SKU: 9780573710094
Rating: 4.43 (5 reviews)

Highlights

Female

105 mins Present Day Role(s) for Black Actor(s) Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes Comedy

Synopsis

Two Latina sisters are appearing on an HGTV-style reality show to sell their family home, hoping to capitalize on the gentrification in their “changing neighborhood.”

As they perform for the camera the show starts to slip into the surreal: one sister grapples with turmoil in the family’s ancestral past and the other learns how much she’s willing to sacrifice for the family’s future.

Dream Hou$e , which earned both the Kendeda Award and Steinberg Playwriting Award in 2021, is a crowd-pleasing comedy with a twist that asks: What is the cultural cost of progress in America?

And is cashing in always selling out?

Press Reviews

"Many excellent plays have tackled the issue of gentrification...but there's a freshness and an intimacy to Dream Hou$e that allows it to inhabit its own space."
— Arts ATL

"Entertains as it asks you to think critically."
— Broadway World

"Purposefully uncentered, unsettled social satire, which explores the meaning of everything from genealogy to gentrification, from virtue to video."
— Hartford Courant

"As a satirical send-up of reality TV, Pipes' play is...sharp and on-target."
— The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"We are rocketed through every emotion on the spectrum—one moment laughing at the absurd and silly, and the next, devastated by loss and fragility."
— MD Theatre Guide

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Julia Woman. Late 20s, Latina or Afrolatina.	female	20s	Woman. Late 20s, Latina or Afrolatina.
Tessa Woman. Early 30s, white.	female	30s	Woman. Early 30s, white.
The Crew 2+ actors, non-speaking.	—	—	2+ actors, non-speaking.
Patricia Woman. Late 30s, Latina or Afrolatina.	female	30s	Woman. Late 30s, Latina or Afrolatina.