Kingdom City
by Sheri Wilner

Name: Kingdom City
Brand: Sheri Wilner
SKU: 9780822237402
Rating: 3.65 (15 reviews)

Kingdom City Book Cover — Kingdom City Cover

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

Unit Set/Multiple SettingsAmerican Comedy

Synopsis

When displaced New York director Miriam Bloom finds herself in Kingdom City, Missouri, she reluctantly agrees to direct a high school production of The Crucible.

As the play unlocks the students’ dark secrets, a local youth minister threatens to cancel the play, creating a firestorm in this small conservative town.

Inspired by actual events that occurred in 2006, KINGDOM CITY strives to present an even-handed examination of the fears and concerns that arise when the welfare of children is at stake.

ThemesCollege and school drama--Drama College and school drama PS3623.I5772 K56 2018

Press Reviews

"In its striking intensity and genuinely thoughtful content, playwright Sheri Wilner’s seriocomic study of the contradictions and ramifications of censorship…is as potentially major [an] American play as we’ve seen since Richard Greenberg[’s]…Take Me Out."
— Los Angeles Times

"…a penetrating comment on moral repression and censorship…smartly written…Wilner’s craftsmanship shines…"
— San Diego City Beat

"[KINGDOM CITY] takes seriously both the kinds of pressures adolescents face and the complicated balance that those who have power over them must find between caring for and coddling them…Wilner explores the issues at hand with considerable wit and insight, and weaves in themes and even passages from The Crucible…in some wonderful and surprising ways."
— San Diego Union-Tribune