Plays
FULL-LENGTH PLAYS
Tokens of Promise by Ada A.
Cast: 7
A wicked satire about modern-day job search and employment culture, Tokens of Promise offers a scathing rebuttal of the working world—and the cost of surviving within it. There’s only one open “diversity” position at this start-up, and the White Corporate Boss Guy is ready to watch the minorities duke it out for the sweet, sweet privilege of employment.
Good Years by Ada A.
Cast: 5
As five teenage girls congregate regularly on the holy steps of twitter.com as OG One Direction stan accounts, the girls’ fandom gradually devolves into righteous fanaticism. Being One Direction fans exposes the girls to their first confrontations with racism, classism, and overt sexism. In this cyber coming-of-age story, where memories are both ephemeral and archived, Dada-our narrator-, welcomes us into the world of One Direction Twitter™.
Placebo by Ada A.
Cast: 7
Teenage girls stage an uprising in a weight-loss correctional facility. Through revolution and liberation, these girls begin to take back their image and who they are from the mirrors and people who have oppressed them.
Peking Apples by Ada A.
Cast: 5
Amy, Rose and Stevie -three Chinese adoptees – anxiously come together for their annual reunion party, delayed two years due to Covid-19. In the period away from each other, Amy has married a black man, Stevie is affianced with a Chinese national and Rose. Rose is popular enough on Twitter to have a blue check. Now that each one is more secure with their life choices, they begin to butt head as they are no longer able to understand each other’s life direction. Sisterhood unravels into antagonism as ideas of family, belonging, and the trauma of being adopted become irreconcilable points of no return.
SHORT PLAYS
The Reverend Dr. Paul(i) Murray by Ada A.
Cast: 3
Pauli Murray’s queerness is brought to the forefront of her identity as Kalina, an undergrad, questions her professor’s assessment of a recent essay that she wrote for his class. However, when Kalina’s essay-version of Pauli is confronted with Pauli, herself, Kalina is forced to ponder the many ways that by upholding Murray’s legacy she is denying Murray of her humanity.
This one-act play explores the tensions and limitations of exploring the past using the words of the “present.”
United Separatism by Ada A.
Cast: 2
After Chioma publishes a scathing article in her college newspaper’s opinion section about the apathy among first-generation African Americans, her friend Ogechi calls her to task for throwing “her people” under the bus.
This ten-minute play explores how two first generation Nigerian-Americans argue over what it means to be in solidarity with Black Americans as they relentlessly interrogate what blackness means for diasporic people and the historical constructions of blackness.
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