Here in America

Cast: 2f 2m

Staging: Several locations (can be simply staged)

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Paperback, 88 pages ISBN: 9781839043697Publication Date:
26 Sep 2024
Size: 198mm x 129mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
Ebook, 88 pages ISBN: 9781788508186Publication Date:
26 Sep 2024
£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
First Staged:
Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, 2024

Here in America

By David Edgar

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On a rainswept afternoon in 1952, Hollywood and Broadway's leading director Elia Kazan met his closest collaborator, the playwright Arthur Miller. As the anti-Communist crusade of McCarthyism blacklisted hundreds of their colleagues, Kazan and Miller faced a stark choice. Should they betray their friends, or risk never working again?

David Edgar's play Here in America is a compelling drama that imagines a confrontation between two giants of stage and screen, both passionately involved with an actress about to become the most famous movie star in the world. It was first performed at the Orange Tree Theatre, London, in 2024, directed by James Dacre.

'I'm saying there's someone who could stop this madness. If you stood up, and said "no".'

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'Compelling and subtle... allows the audience to make up its own mind... cerebral and rewarding'

The Times

'A fascinating and fertile subject... captivating to watch... the comparisons we can draw with modern-day America are all too clear'

Telegraph

'An intriguing, knotty new drama about artists trying to survive in a time of political repression... Edgar ably captures his famous subjects' complexities and contradictions, nailing their honed intellectualism and overweening egos... a taut, noirish mood of unspoken menace'

The Stage

'A lively take on the personal politics of art and ideology'

Guardian

'Intelligent writing... Edgar puts the emphasis on the personal, suggesting betrayals not only of political comrades but in personal life too... it held me right through its single 80-minute act'

British Theatre Guide

'Powerful, intense and engaging'

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Cast: 2f 2m

Staging:Several locations (can be simply staged)

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Paperback,88 pages ISBN: 9781839043697Publication Date:
26 Sep 2024
Size: 198mm x 129mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
Ebook,88 pages ISBN: 9781788508186Publication Date:
26 Sep 2024
£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)

Also by David Edgar:

The New Real
Maydays & Trying It On: two plays
Mothers Against
Written on the Heart
Albert Speer
If Only
A Christmas Carol
Arthur & George
The Prisoner's Dilemma
Pentecost
Edgar: Shorts
Testing the Echo
How Plays Work
Maydays
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Trying It On
The Shape of the Table
A Time to Keep
Continental Divide: two plays
Playing With Fire
The Master Builder
Daughters of the Revolution

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