The Comeuppance
by Branden Jacobs-jenkins
Highlights
Awards & Recognition
Winner! 2024 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play Winner! 2024 Obie Award Special Citation for Outstanding Ensemble Nominee: Five 2024 Lucille Lortel Awards
What readers are saying
Readers appreciate the cleverness and relevant themes in the play. However, some feel that the pacing is slow and lacks significant action, focusing mainly on dialogue between characters.
Synopsis
The Comeuppance; A bitingly comic, strikingly timely satire for the stage, which asks if we can ever break free from the people we used to be.
Press Reviews
"The Comeuppance is a rich and fully mature work… a haunting new play. It’s a mystery of the fine writing that the humor does not squash but rather enhances the pathos surging underneath. When it erupts, it can be devastating."
— The New York Times
"The Comeuppance channels and condenses what’s been floating in the ether and brings it all to earth. Here’s a drama where Branden Jacobs-Jenkins both sums up and reconfigures the present moment."
— New York Magazine
"Brilliant… a worthy successor to standouts like Gloria and An Octoroon."
— New York Stage Review
"The anxiety of elder millennials as we peer over the hill is a rich source of drama, and Jacobs-Jenkins finds thrilling ways to exploit that."
— TheaterMania
Characters
| Character |
|---|
Emilio |
Caitlin |
Francisco |
Kristina |
Simon voice |
Ursula |
Videos
Obie Awards Outstanding Ensemble Acceptance Speech – The Comeuppance
Publication
The Comeuppance is a comedy play written by Branden Jacobs-jenkins and published by Nick Hern Books (2024).
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