Sep. 20 – Oct. 8 Gay City, Capitol Hill
Synopsis
Set in a world so far in the future it’s stupid, an ordinary dude named Doug suddenly finds himself intergalactically sex-trafficked and gifted to the princess of a strange world on her wedding day. Surrounded by people who speak a language he’s never heard, Doug struggles to return home while developing a complicated and fraught relationship with his captors. As the princess grows dangerously fond of him, Doug’s chances of escape become ever more remote. Chisa Hutchinson’s daring new play takes a hilarious and dangerous look at politics, class, race and religion.
Forward Flux Productions will be the second company in the world to present this daring new play, after it received its’ world premiere at the American Contemporary Theater Festival near DC in July, 2016.
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Meet the Playwright
Chisa Hutchinson
Having never even seen a play until high school, Chisa caught up mighty fast by earning a B.A. in Dramatic Arts from Vassar College and an M.F.A. in Playwriting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has since been commissioned to write several plays and has even written a few just for kicks, including DIRT RICH (Summer Stage),SHE LIKE GIRLS (the Lark Play Development Center, Working Man’s Clothes Productions), THIS IS NOT THE PLAY (Mad Dog Theater Company, Cleveland Public Theater), SEX ON SUNDAY (the Lark Play Development Center, the BE Company),TUNDE’S TRUMPET (Summer Stage, BOOM Arts), THE SUBJECT (Atlantic Theater Company, Playwrights’ Foundation, Victory Gardens, Partial Comfort, and Rattlestick Theater), MAMA’S GONNA BUY YOU (Inge Center for the Arts), SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER (Cherry Lane, Second Stage), ALONDRA WAS HERE (the Wild Project), and DEAD & BREATHING (the Lark Play Development Center, Contemporary American Theater Festival, National Black Theater)
Chisa has been a Lark Fellow, a Dramatists Guild Fellow, a Resident at the William Inge Center for the Arts, a staff writer for the Blue Man Group and an ensemble member of the New York Neo Futurists. She’s won a GLAAD Award, a Lilly, a New York Innovative Theatre Award, the Paul Green Award, a Helen Merrill Award, and a Lanford Wilson Award. Currently, she is a Humanitas Fellow, and a proud member of New Dramatists.
Cast
Nazlah Black
as Nahlis
Charhys Bailey
as Kamsuh
Marquicia Dominguez
as Onjah
Alaji Marie
as Attendant
Varsha Raghavan
as Attendant
Andrew Shanks
as Doug
Tré Calhoun
as Beshrum
J Reese*
as Torosh
Lance Valdez
as Attendant
*Appearing courtesy Actors’ Equity Association
Creative Team