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Stephen Karam
Sons Of The Prophet
by Stephen Karam
Awards & Recognition
Drama Critics Circle Lucille Lortel Award Pulitzer Prize
Finalist: 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner! 2012 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play Winner! 2012 Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play
Synopsis
Winner of the 2012 Drama Critics' Circle, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play, and a 2012 Pulitzer Prize Finalist
A deeply humorous, unflinching portrait of grief and loss, Sons of the Prophet depicts a Lebanese-American family in rural Pennsylvania beset by an absurd string of tragedies.
At the play's center is Joseph Douaihy, a once-promising world-class runner now sidelined by injury.
As Joseph confronts his deteriorating health, he is also forced to face the death of his father, an ailing Uncle, and a desperate boss beset by her own tragedies.
Deftly keeping its various storylines in careful balance, Karam's play confronts, with abundant intelligence and great sympathy for human frailty, the inevitability of loss and the equally inevitable comedy resulting from our attempts to cope with is consequences.
Press Reviews
"Explosively funny…one of the many soul-piercing truths in Sons of the Prophet, the absolutely wonderful comedy-drama by Stephen Karam, is that life rarely obeys the rules of dramatic consistency, or, for that matter, fair play. Written with insight and compassion, not to mention biting wit, it shines a clarifying light into some of life’s darker passages, exploring how people endure the unendurable, and not only survive but also move forward through their blighted lives with sustaining measures of hope, love and good humor.“ – New York Times ”Just as darkness shows off brilliance, the play’s poignant comedy makes us see that facing grief is the best way to ease its considerable grip. Karam’s nuanced, comic storytelling – a delicate weave of the spoken and the unspoken, the outrageous and the unconscionable – holds pain and pleasure together in startling equipoise, never trivializing either.“ –The New Yorker ”This is a major, devastating new play, elegant and subtle and infused with t"
— New York Magazine
Characters
| Character |
|---|
| Gloria – 59 |
| Charles – 18 |
| Bill – 74 |
| Timothy – 28 |
| Vin – 18 |
| Physician’S Assistant – Female, 40s/50s |
| Doctor Manor – Female, 40s/50s |
| Board Member #1 – Female, 40s/50s |
| Ticket Agent – Female, 60s |
| Board Member #2 – Female, 60s |
| Mrs. Mcandrew – Female, 60s |
| Joseph – 29 |
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Sons of the Prophet - About the Show
Publication
Publisher Northwestern University Press
Year 2012
Binding Paperback
Pages 112
Place Evanston, USA
Language English
ISBN-13 9780810128774
ISBN-10 0810128772
LCCN 2012020225
LCC PS 3611. A72 S66 2012
DCC 812.6 [ddc23]
Sons Of The Prophet is a American comedy play written by Stephen Karam and published by Northwestern University Press in Evanston, USA (2012).
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