Look Out

Sara Farrington

Note

Not yet published.

Description

It’s 1999, and Mara and Ruth Glass are teenagers, a drama kid and a punk trapped inside the bedroom where their mother attempted suicide earlier that evening. Over the course of the play, the girls piece together the insidious motivators that have driven their mother toward suicide. Soon, the portrait of a woman destroyed by society, misogyny, Hollywood, men, and diet culture emerges. This was a woman who was determined to shape her daughters in her own twisted image. But the girls unravel it all — by turns playacting, mimicking, obfuscating, blaming, physically and verbally sparring. As they anticipate the phone call with the news of their mother’s fate, the bedroom itself becomes anatomized into a micro-America, and from it they predict the dark world approaching on “the other side of the century.”

Production Info

Cast: 2 total (2 female, teengers played by adults)
Full Length Drama (about 80 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
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About the Author

Author

  • Sara Farrington

    Sara Farrington (Playwright) NYC/NJ playwright, co-founder of Foxy Films theater company w/ Reid Farrington. MFA: Brooklyn College with Mac Wellman. Publications: The Lost Conversation: Interviews with an Enduring Avant Garde (53rd State Press), A TROJAN WOMAN, MICKEY & SAGE (both @ Broadway Play Publishing, Inc), LEISURE, LABOR, LUST (Next Stage Press). Sara wrote the book & lyrics for DR. UNCANNY PRESENTS: MOREAU '96, a musical composed by David Van Tieghem and directed by Reid Farrington, adapted from Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau, directed by David Gregory, courtesy of Severin Films. Sara's play CASABLANCABOX was commissioned as part of HARP @ HERE and nominated for two Drama Desk Awards. Her work has been called "dazzling" by The New Yorker and "brave, almost foolhardy" by The New York Times. Her plays have toured internationally, most recently A TROJAN WOMAN, her version of the Euripides, which toured to Athens, Belfast, London, Luna Stage in NJ, Powerhouse Theater @ Vassar and APAP showings in NYC. Other favorite plays include LOOK OUT (North American Cultural Lab Deep Space Residency) DORA MAAR (Mercury Store Residency), BRANDOCAPOTE (The Tank 2019), MENDACITY (film version, official selection of the NYC Indie Theater Film Festival), THE RETURN (commission from the Metropolitan Museum of Art), NEAR VICKSBURG (Incubator Arts Project) and THE RISE & FALL OF MILES & MILO (FringeNYC Award for Outstanding Playwriting). Subscribe to her cathartic Substack @TheaterIsHard & visit www.ladyfarrington.com

About the Book

Book Information

Publisher BPPI
Publication Date
Pages
ISBN 9798888561164

Special Notes

Special Notes

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Look Out is produced
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypublishing.com