Peerless
by Jiehae Park

Name: Peerless
Brand: Jiehae Park
SKU: 9780573705878
Rating: 3.94 (136 reviews)

Highlights

Female

Male

90 mins Present Day Role(s) for Asian Actor(s) Unit Set/Multiple Settings Comedy

Synopsis

Asian-American twins M and L have given up everything to get into The College.

So when D, a one-sixteenth Native American classmate, gets “their” spot instead, they figure they’ve got only one option: kill him.

A darkly comedic take on Shakespeare’s Macbeth about the very ambitious and the cut-throat world of high school during college admissions.

Press Reviews

"Peerless is neither an over-the-top farce nor a moralistic downer. It’s frothy fun, full of goofy dancing and awkward romantic fumbles in the classic John Hughes style. Yet Peerless is as scary as it is silly. It’s about anger and cruelty and danger and life and death. It’s also about coming-of-age and coming to grips with mortality."
— Hartford Courant

"A theatrical genre-bending piece... Peerless is concerned not only about the broader socio-academic-cultural issue but also the human toll."
— The Berkshire Eagle

"With its staccato rhythms, short scenes, and farcical characters, unlike any you’ve ever seen before onstage, it’s hard to know how to characterize this play, except to say that it’s unexpectedly wonderful."
— The Arts Fuse

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Bf M’s boyfriend. Black	—	—	M’s boyfriend. Black
D Male. Looks (really) white. 1/16 Native American.	male	—	Male. Looks (really) white. 1/16 Native American.
Dirty Girl aka Caroline aka That Weird Girl in High School You Know The One.	—	—	aka Caroline aka That Weird Girl in High School You Know The One.
D’S Brother (doubles with D)	—	—	(doubles with D)
Preppy Girl (doubles with DIRTY GIRL)	—	—	(doubles with DIRTY GIRL)
M &Amp; L Twin sisters. Asian	female	—	Twin sisters. Asian