Where We Belong
by Madeline Sayet

Name: Where We Belong
Brand: Madeline Sayet
SKU: 9780822243977

Where We Belong Book Cover — Where We Belong Cover

Highlights

90 mins Present Day Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle) Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle) Role(s) for Non-Binary Actor(s) Role(s) for Indigenous Actor(s) Bare Stage/Simple Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes Comedy

Synopsis

The power of language is celebrated in Madeline Sayet’s one-person play about heritage, passion, and cultures colliding.

Growing up in a Mohegan family, Madeline felt the pressure to learn and pass along all she could of her culture.

When she ends up falling for Shakespeare and moving to the UK to study his works, her family’s expectations and colonialism’s unrooting of native peoples’ rituals weigh heavily on her.

Where We Belong dramatizes the push and pull of honoring where you came from and inhabiting a world that requires permission to be a part of it.

Press Reviews

"Relay[ed] with wit, warmth and mournful reflection... Sayet taps into larger truths about American and British society’s collective failure to reckon with colonialism."
— Washington Post

"Sayet sets out with questions – about her own direction, her purpose – that seem to multiply. There’s courage in confessing such insecurity."
— The New York Times

"Searing... As intellectually daring as it is emotionally resonant… Creates an emotional acuity quite rare on the contemporary stage... Hums with an argumentative clarity."
— MD Theatre Guide

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Achokayis Mohegan, 20s-30s, theatre-maker and scholar, child of a tribal leader. Strong sense of self and relationship to their culture, curious, trying to make sense out of the world around them. Good sense of humor, resilient. NOTE ON CASTING	—	20s	Mohegan, 20s-30s, theatre-maker and scholar, child of a tribal leader. Strong sense of self and relationship to their culture, curious, trying to make sense out of the world around them. Good sense of humor, resilient. NOTE ON CASTING