Stick Fly - Softcover

Diamond, Lydia R

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0573700923 ISBN 13: 9780573700927

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc., 2013

Synopsis

Winner! 2010 LA Drama Critics Circle Awards: Best Production, Best Direction, Best Ensemble Performance
Winner! 2010 LA Garland and 2009 LA Weekly Theatre Awards for Playwriting
Winner! Boston IRNE Award
Winner! 2006 Black Theatre Alliance Award, Best Play
Finalist! 2008 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Nominee! 2012 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding New Broadway Play

The affluent, African-American LeVay family is gathering at their Martha's Vineyard home for the weekend, and brothers Kent and Flip have each brought their respective ladies home to meet the parents for the first time. Kent's fiancée Taylor, an academic whose absent father was a prominent author, struggles to fit into the LeVay's upper-crust lifestyle. Kimber, on the other hand, is a selfdescribed WASP who works with inner-city school children, fits in more easily with the family. Joining these two couples are the demanding LeVay patriarch Joe and Cheryl, the daughter of the family's longtime housekeeper. As the two newcomers butt heads over issues of race and privilege, longstanding family tensions bubble under the surface and reach a boiling point when secrets are revealed.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Sensitive "Spoon" LeVay and his brother "Flip" see their weekend at the family home on Martha's Vineyard as a perfect opportunity to introduce their girlfriends to their upper class African American parents. Instead, they stumble into a domestic powder keg that exposes secrets of prejudice, hypocrisy and adultery. This fantastic new play comes from the pen of one of the country's most provocative new playwrights!

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Justine Bateman, Dule Hill, Tinashe Kajese, Carl Lumbly, Terrell Tilford and Michole Briana White.

From the Back Cover:

How well do you know your family? Your social class? Your race? Sensitive Kent Spoon LeVay and his slick brother Flip see their weekend at the family home on Marthas Vineyard as the perfect opportunity to introduce their girlfriends to their upper-middle class African American parents. Instead they stumble into a domestic powder-keg that exposes secrets of prejudice, hypocisy and adultery.
Stick Fly comes from the pen of one of Americas most engaging new playwrights, Lydia R. Diamond. Starring Carl Lumbly, Justine Bateman and Dule Hill.

About this edition

• Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0573700923
• ISBN 13: 9780573700927
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 105