Out of Sorts E-Book

Danusia Samal

• Herausgeber: Nick Hern Books
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

Zara has spent her adult life being two different people. The good Muslim daughter, all set to marry the man her family approves of – and a free-spirited British millennial, who parties as hard as she works. Over one dramatic weekend, the lies she's been telling to keep these two worlds apart begin to unravel and she is forced to confront her real identity. Danusia Samal's play Out of Sorts was the winner of Theatre503's International Playwriting Award 2018. It premiered at Theatre503, London, in October 2019.

Leseprobe

Danusia Samal

OUT OF

SORTS

NICK HERN BOOKS

London

www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Contents

Original Production

Thanks and Acknowledgements

Characters

Note on Play

Set

Out of Sorts

About the Author

Copyright and Performing Rights Information

Out of Sorts was the winner of the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award 2018 and was first performed at Theatre503, London, on 9 October 2019. The cast was as follows:

ZARA

Nalân Burgess

LAYLA

Myriam Acharki

HUSSEIN

Nayef Rashed

FATIMA

Oznur Cifci

ALICE

Emma Denly

ANTHONY

Claudius Peters

Director

Tanuja Amarasuriya

Designer

Rebecca Wood

Lighting Designer

Ali Hunter

Sound Designer

Rachael Murray

Casting Director

Lilly Mackie

Fight Director

Enric Ortuño

Thanks and Acknowledgements

This play has been in my head for a long, long time and there were a lot of people who helped bring it here! People who read terrible early drafts, who offered their notes, feedback and support, who listened to me moan about how it wasn’t working! So, in no particular order, special thanks to: The whole team at 503 who were so welcoming and supportive, especially Lisa, Steve, Jake, Andrew and Jennifer; the judges who picked Out of Sorts as 503’s winning play and gave me the shock of my life; to Nic Wass and Jane Fallowfield who read early drafts – your feedback was invaluable; Fin Kennedy at Tamasha; Nick Hern Books; Chino Odimba; Alex Rusher; all the mates who read and performed sections (Josh, Sarah I’m looking at you!); Tanuja and all the brilliant cast and creative team who have brought the text to life and dealt with lots and lots of hummus-y mess; and last but not least my family, who have taught me to be ‘out of sorts’ and proud.

Danusia

Characters

ZARA, mid/late twenties

LAYLA, Zara’s mother. Fifties

HUSSEIN, Zara’s father. Fifties

FATIMA, Zara’s little sister. Seventeen

ALICE, Zara’s best friend and flatmate. Mid/late twenties

ANTHONY, Alice’s boyfriend. Thirties

Note on Play

The family’s country of origin is intentionally unspecified. The company is free to make a decision about which Arabic-speaking country Zara’s family is from, and to adjust any cultural references accordingly.

Forward slashes (/) indicate the point at which the next speaker interrupts.

Words in [square brackets] are unspoken.

Some Arabic words or phrases are used in the text. The company is free to change these, or to translate other sections of the text from English to Arabic.

Text in bold italics indicates characters are speaking in Arabic.

Set

The stage is split, simultaneously representing two rooms in two very different households. We see the living room of Zara’s family home. A small, slightly worn council flat, but very very clean and tidy. Bits of kitsch furniture: doilies, a golden-framed picture of Mecca, a large dining table. One door leads to the kitchen, the other to the front entrance.

Coexisting onstage is Zara’s British home. A small kitchen in a flat she shares with her best friend Alice. By contrast it is very IKEA and millennial. Messy. Girls’ clothes, papers strewn everywhere. There’s a breakfast bar and stools, bits of furniture the girls have put there ad hoc. The result is a space they own, occupy, and relax in.

This ebook was created before the end of rehearsals and so may differ slightly from the play as performed.

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