Eclipsed
by Danai Gurira

Name: Eclipsed
Brand: Danai Gurira
SKU: 9780822224464
Rating: 4.19 (367 reviews)

Broadway Off-Broadway

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

120 mins Present Day Role(s) for Black Actor(s) All Women Unit Set/Multiple Settings American

Awards & Recognition

Drama Critics Circle Drama Desk Award Lucille Lortel Award Outer Critics Circle Tony Award

Nominee: Six 2016 Tony Awards, including Best Play Winner! 2016 Drama Desk Sam Norkin Award Nominee: 2016 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play Nominee: 2016 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play Nominee: 2016 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Play Winner! 2016 Lilly Award for Outstanding Playwriting Winner! 2010 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play Winner! 2010 NAACP Theatre Award for Best Playwright (for Eclipsed )

Synopsis

Civil war is raging in Liberia.

Four young women – members of the rebel army – are struggling to survive.

Yet sometimes, the greatest threat comes not from the enemy, but from the brutality of those on your own side.

Winner of the NAACP, Helen Hayes, and Best New Play awards, Eclipsed is a funny, compassionate, and daring new work.

Press Reviews

"A surprisingly vivacious portrait of helplessness, of the entirely human impulse to adapt… conveyed with a lovely authority, at times even a whimsicality. [In this] authentic-feeling production, [Danai Gurira’s] tight-knit kinship with these characters comes across as if she shared the stage with them.” – Washington Post“Stirring and sobering, and funnier than you’d expect… a deeply felt portrait of women in extremis, finding and testing their own strength."
— Washington City Paper

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Helena Late teens/early twenties	—	—	Late teens/early twenties
Bessie Mid-late teens	—	—	Mid-late teens
Maima Mid-late teens	—	—	Mid-late teens
Rita Forties	—	—	Forties
The Girl Fifteen	—	—	Fifteen