Mickey & Sage
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Description
Mickey’s dad and Sage’s mom are really, really good friends. So every day after school, Mickey’s dad drops Mickey off at Sage’s house and the two kids (played by adults) are forced to play together in Sage’s tightly fenced-in backyard while the parents are “hanging out.” The kids spend the endless hours rationalizing adult behavior, making sense of the cosmos, spying on their disturbing neighbors and surviving each other. Both funny and tragic, MICKEY & SAGE examines the clarity, beauty and brevity of childhood by constantly asking, “What happens to people?”
Production Info
Full Length Drama (about 60 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Press Quotes
“This four-scene, 60-minute piece lays bare the way that the minor differences that kids note about their playmates’ home lives take on greater weight and power as childhood ends.” —Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice
“Listening to two kids talking smack during forced backyard playdates can be pretty funny. They mangle adult language they’re trying to ape, and what it all means. But there’s a disturbing undercurrent to MICKEY & SAGE. Comedy leavens the underlying painful circumstances, as filtered through the minds of youngsters trying to make sense of it all — or just to survive emotionally and physically.” —Bob Fischbach, Omaha World-Herald
Author
Sara FarringtonSara 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
Book Information
| Publisher | BPPI |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 12/15/2014 |
| Pages | 62 |
| ISBN | 9780881456264 |
Special Notes
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypublishing.com