Mickey & Sage
Play 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
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)Full Length Drama (about 60 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
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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(s)
Sara FarringtonSara is an NYC/NJ based playwright and theater maker, co-founder of Foxy Films, her theater company with husband, Reid Farrington. MFA from Brooklyn College with Mac Wellman. Recent and upcoming: CASABLANCABOX (commissioned by HARP @ HERE Arts Center, nominated for two 2017 Drama Desk Awards, Unique Theatrical Experience & Outstanding Projection Design.) BRANDOCAPOTE (The Tank 2019), RED QUEENS (InTandem Lab, 2020) COSMICOMICS (The Flea 2020), HONDURAS (AFO SoloCollective, NYC & regional tours), LEISURE, LABOR, LUSTt (Tank, The Mount, Art House), THE RETURN (commissioned/performed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art), NEAR VICKSBURG (Incubator Arts), REQUIEM FOR BLACK MARIE (Incubator, Stella Adler), MICKEY & SAGE (Incubator Arts & regional productions). Her work has received support from The Venturous Fund, MediaTHE, NYSCA, Axe-Houghton, Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation. MacDowell Colony fellow, Connecticut College and NTI @ Eugene O'Neill Center grad, Wooster Group intern. Sara writes an interview series with NYC avant garde lifers for The Brooklyn Rail called Power & Punk. Sara and husband Reid Farrington have two boys and live in Maplewood, NJ.
Book Information
| Publisher | BPPI |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 12/15/2014 |
| Pages | 62 |
| ISBN | 9780881456264 |
Special Notes
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