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 FarringtonPlaywright, co-founder of Foxy Films theater co. with Reid Farrington. The mind behind the "Theater Is Hard" Substack. MFA in Playwriting Brooklyn College with Mac Wellman. Sara's plays have been called "dazzling" by The New Yorker and "brave, almost foolhardy" by The New York Times. Publications include "The Lost Conversation: Interviews with an Enduring Avant-Garde" (53rd State Press), LOOK OUT, A TROJAN WOMAN, MICKEY & SAGE (all @ Broadway Play Publishing, Inc), LEISURE, LABOR, LUST (Next Stage). A TROJAN WOMAN has toured to Mixed Blood Theater, Minneapolis, Magic Theater, San Francisco, Powerhouse @ Vassar, Luna Stage, Katina Paxinou Theater in Athens, Greece, The MAC Theater, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Kings Head Theater, London. Sara wrote the book & lyrics for DR. UNCANNY PRESENTS: MOREAU '96, a musical composed by David Van Tieghem, directed by Reid Farrington, adapted from "Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau." Sara's multi-media play CASABLANCABOX was commissioned as part of HARP @ HERE Arts Center and nominated for two Drama Desk Awards. Sara's LOOK OUT was developed as part of NaCL's Deep Space Residency, Sept 2026 and was a 2026 Finalist for The Henley Rose Playwriting Prize. Sara's DORA MAAR, about the surrealist and the making of "Guernica," is in development, with workshops at Luna Stage. Sara constructed and performs in CARELESS PEOPLE, based on a 100-year-old transcript from Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Other plays: BRANDOCAPOTE (Tank, Art House), MENDACITY (Official selection NYCITFF), LEISURE, LABOR, LUST (The Mount, Lenox MA & Tank) THE RETURN (commissioned by & performed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Venetian Sculpture Gallery & Grace Rainey Rogers Theater) MICKEY & SAGE (Incubator Arts Project), NEAR VICKSBURG (Incubator Arts Project), THE RISE & FALL OF MILES & MILO (FringeNYC Award: Outstanding Playwriting). Sara's been an artist-in-residence at The Mercury Store, NaCL's Deep Space, New Ohio, Luna Stage, Great Plains, MacDowell and others, with support from NYFA, NYSCA, Venturous Fund, Axe-Houghton, NJCOA & others. For more: www.ladyfarrington.com & subscribe to Theater Is Hard: https://substack.com/@theaterishard
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