Native Speech
Description
In a futuristic city, one man tells it like he sees it — Hungry Mother! He's the DJ with a strong pulse but a weak signal. He riffs on the truth with verbal virtuosity, with primal passion, with ambidextrous dexterity, with a sexy scream … but when his visions begin to manifest themselves in sinister ways, is he being played by darker forces? Or are his words creating a dangerous truth?
Production Info
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Press Quotes
“Down at the bottom of your radio dial is a station with a weak signal but a strong message. The man behind the message calls himself Hungry Mother, and he’s a disc jockey with a difference. In NATIVE SPEECH, the difference is playwright Eric Overmyer’s chilling vision of a society about to go belly up … NATIVE SPEECH shapes its ideas through a network of rich visual and verbal images rather than resorting to logic. Overmyer has created a wonderful hip language for Hungry to speak, and it never dies in his mouth no matter how surreal the psychic terrain through which we move. As in all good cautionary tales, the unspoken word behind the story is: beware.” —Jay Reiner, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
Author
Eric OvermyerEric Overmyer is a playwright and a television writer and producer. He graduated as a theater major from Reed College in 1973. His plays include ON THE VERGE, THE HELIOTROPE BOUQUET, IN A PIG'S VALISE, DON QUIXOTE DE LA JOLLA, NATIVE SPEECH, MI VIDA LOCA, IN PERPETUITY THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE, and DARK RAPTURE. Mr Overmyer has written extensively for television, including for Homicide: Life on the Street, The Wire and Law & Order, and has been nominated for two Emmy Awards. He received an Edgar Award for the television feature Rear Window. Overmyer was also a co-creator of the HBO series Treme, about musicians in post-Katrina New Orleans.
Book Information
| Publisher | BPPI |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 7/1/1984 |
| Pages | 96 |
| ISBN | 9780881450170 |
Special Notes
Originally produced at the Los Angeles Theater Center/Los Angeles Actors Theater
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypublishing.com