We Are Not These Hands
by Sheila Callaghan

Name: We Are Not These Hands
Brand: Sheila Callaghan
SKU: 9780573696695
Rating: 3.36 (17 reviews)

We Are Not These Hands Book Cover — We Are Not These Hands Cover

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

90 minsPresent DayRole(s) for Teen(s)Bare Stage/Simple SetContemporary Costumes/Street ClothesAmerican Comedy

What readers are saying

Readers have mixed feelings about this play. While some are captivated by the writing and the unique experience it offers, others struggle to connect with its world and find the dialogue off-putting.

Well written and engagingUnique experienceThought-provokingDifficult to connect with characters

Synopsis

Comedy / 1m 2f / Simple SetEver since their school blew up Moth and Belly have taken to stalking an illegal internet café in the hopes o/ f one day being allowed in.

They take particular interest in Leather a skittish older man doing research in the café

Leather is a self-proclaimed "freelance scholar" from a foreign land with a sketchy past and a sticky secret.

Leather begins to fall head over heals in love with Moth... but what about Belly?

This play explores the effects of rampant ca

ThemesCybercafes--Drama Cybercafes Female friendship--Drama Female friendship PS3603.A442 W43 2009

Press Reviews

"Swaggering eccentricity...Callaghan takes a lavish mud bath in a broken language...Ripe apocalyptic slang; at its best, it's racy and unrefined, the kind of stuff you might imagine kids in the back alleys of a decaying world might sling around."
— The Washington Post

"Bold and engaging, We Are Not These Hands is as fun as it is engaging...Rich in detail and full of humor and pathos."
— Oakland Tribune

"The gap between rich and poor yawns so wide it aches in Sheila Callaghan's We Are Not These Hands, but much of the ache is from laughter. Hands is a comically engaging, subversively penetrating look at the human cost of unbridled capitalism on both sides of the river...the anger of the play's social vision is partly concealed by its copious humor, emerging more forcefully after it's over...Hands bristles with bright, comic originality, particularly in depicting the limitations of its people."
— San Francisco Chronicle

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Moth Young woman, early teens (15 years), bright, sweet, a little bit manipulative	female	—	Young woman, early teens (15 years), bright, sweet, a little bit manipulative
Leather Man, age 35-45, manic and odd	—	35-45	Man, age 35-45, manic and odd
Belly Young woman, early teens (15 years), tough, hard, street-smart, incredibly dirty	female	—	Young woman, early teens (15 years), tough, hard, street-smart, incredibly dirty