Yellow
by Del Shores

Name: Yellow
Brand: Del Shores
SKU: 9780573700972
Rating: 2.67 (3 reviews)

Highlights

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120 mins Present Day Ensemble Cast Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes Comedy

Awards & Recognition

Drama Critics Circle

WINNER! 2012 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Ted Schmitt Award, Best World Premiere Play WINNER! 2012 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, Best Production

Synopsis

Yellow chronicles a year in the life of the perfect family in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Bobby Westmoreland, a high school football coach, and his wife Kate, a respected therapist, have two ambitious children in high school.

Their son Dayne is the golden football star while their daughter Gracie is an overly-dramatic actress.

Gracie’s best friend is a young gay boy, Kendall, who is at constant odds with his abusive, fundamentalist mother, Sister Timothea.

The play opens with the start of the football season and high school auditions for “Oklahoma.”

Everything falls apart when an unexpected tragedy rocks the Westmoreland family to the breaking point.

Yellow explores the themes of cowardice, intolerance and the damage caused to families by secrets, rejection and the difficulty of forgiveness.

A departure from the comedy of earlier works, Del Shores’ Yellow is the award-winning playwright’s most dramatic play to date.

The play was one of the most awarded Los Angeles plays of 2010, winning Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for Best Production and Best World Premiere Play.

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Kate Westmoreland 40’s. A therapist. Strong-willed, opinionated, smart, sexual and pretty. Great mom, runs her house.	female	—	40’s. A therapist. Strong-willed, opinionated, smart, sexual and pretty. Great mom, runs her house.
Dayne Westmoreland 17. A high school senior. This family’s golden boy. Confident and very handsome. The best fullback to come out of the state of Mississippi.	—	17	17. A high school senior. This family’s golden boy. Confident and very handsome. The best fullback to come out of the state of Mississippi.
Gracie Westmoreland 15. An overly-dramatic high school sophomore who is consumed with acting and sibling rivalry.	—	15	15. An overly-dramatic high school sophomore who is consumed with acting and sibling rivalry.
Kendall Parker 15. Effeminate, too pretty to be a boy. Wise beyond his years. He escapes his fundamentalist mother through his love for theatre.	female	15	15. Effeminate, too pretty to be a boy. Wise beyond his years. He escapes his fundamentalist mother through his love for theatre.
Sister Timothea Parker 40’s. A conservative, crazy religious fundamentalist	—	—	40’s. A conservative, crazy religious fundamentalist
Bobby Westmoreland 40’s. A football coach and family man. Easy-going, laidback, still handsome and in shape.	—	—	40’s. A football coach and family man. Easy-going, laidback, still handsome and in shape.