The Comeuppance
$25.49
- Paperback
120 pages
- Release Date
16 February 2027
Summary
A hauntingly surreal play that plumbs the depths of a group of close friends reuniting for the first time in decades.
Twenty years after graduating from a Catholic academy in Washington, DC, a group of old friends gather on a porch to pregame their high school reunion. Bonded by a shared sense of alienation and by the traumatic events of their high school years, including the Columbine massacre and 9⁄11, as well as their own self-proclaimed “Multi-Ethnic Reject” status, the friends ar…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781636702759 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1636702759 |
| Author: | Branden Jacobs-Jenkins |
| Publisher: | Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 120 |
| Release Date: | 16 February 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 139mm x 215mm |
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Critics Review
“A profound tragicomedy, or perhaps vice versa, about the reunion that awaits us all.”
–New York Times
“Here’s a drama where Branden Jacobs-Jenkins both sums up and reconfigures the present moment.”
–Vulture
“This reunion–depth-charged like most–unfolds in its own style (blessedly free of cliché) and at its own pace.”
–New York Stage Review
“The anxiety of elder millennials as we peer over the hill is a rich source of drama, and Jacobs-Jenkins finds thrilling ways to exploit that.”
–TheaterMania
“A more up-to-date play than “The Comeuppance” does not exist. One of the great pleasures here, among many others, is how Jacobs-Jenkins takes us right up to June 2023 through the play’s many references to yesterday’s news.”
–The Wrap
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a writer and theatre artist whose plays include Purpose, Appropriate, The Comeuppance, Girls, Everybody, War, Gloria, An Octoroon, and Neighbors. He is a Professor in the Practice at Yale University and serves as Vice President of The Dramatists Guild council. He has been the recipient of two Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, the MacArthur Fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award.
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