The Fall Of Heaven
by Walter Mosley

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Highlights

120 mins Present Day Role(s) for Black Actor(s) Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American Black History Comedy

Synopsis

Press Reviews

"… you've got one of those nights at the theater you just hope is someone's first live play, 'cause they'll be fans for a lifetime. It's that kind of special."

— St. Louis Magazine

"The Fall of Heaven is a stunning success. Mosley deftly reworks The Tempest Tales into an incendiary piece of theatre that's both enthralling and engaging, drawing in the audience and never letting them go."

— Broadwayworld.com

"The Fall of Heaven could mark the rise of Walter Mosley as a powerful contemporary voice on the American Stage."

— City Beat (Cincinnati)

"Rip-roaring... Altogether irresistible... Mosley possesses a hiply modern ear, a sharply focused, streetwise eye, tremendous wit, and a mischievous mix of unmitigated comic glee and deep ruefulness about the human condition. And that is just enough to reawaken belief in even the most cynical of us mortal creatures"

— Chicago Sun-Times

"Not only is it a new play, fresh from the prolific imagination of novelist Walter Mosley, it also is a play so far outside the usual dramatic conventions that it keeps you guessing until the very last moments."

— St. Louis Post Dispatch

Characters

Character
Man 2 - Joshua Angel

African American, approximately the same age as Tempest

Man 3 - Bob

White, 30s, dashing, all other male roles

Woman 1 - Branwyn

African American, late 20s/early 30s, naturally attractive

Woman 2 - Alfreda

African American, all other female roles, approximately the same age as Branwyn

Man 1 - Tempest Landry

African American, handsome, 30s

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 2011
Binding Paperback
Edition Illustrated
Pages 120
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573601057
ISBN-10 0573601054
LCCN 2013497077
LCC MLCS 2014/43017 (P)

The Fall Of Heaven is a American black history play written by Walter Mosley and published by Samuel French in New York (2011).

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