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Enlightenment

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  3w, 3m

Shelagh Stephenson

Published to tie-in with the world premier at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in March 2005.

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 3m
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for All Audiences

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Summary

At three o'clock in the morning, this is what I think. I think somebody killed him. They killed him, God, I don't know how I'm uttering these words ...they killed him because he's white and Western and they hated him. And it wasn't personal. Which somehow makes it worse.When Lia and Nick's son disappears when overseas, all they have is an email that he was thinking of going to Jakarta, leaving them with their own grief and uncertainty. And then a stranger appears, uncannily like their son, covered in scars and holding Adam's passport...Enlightenment is a powerful study of parental grief and of hope amidst uncertainty. Published to tie-in with the world premier at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in March 2005.

Keywords

Lia, 39
Nick, her husband, early 40s
Joyce, late middle age
Gordon, Lia's father, 60s
Joanna, 30ish
Adam, 20

  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting

    Various simple settings

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Shelagh Stephenson

Shelagh Stephenson
Shelagh Stephenson: Her first play, THE MEMORY OF WATER, was produced at Hampstead Theatre and subsequently in the West End, where it won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy. Its American premiere was at Steppenwolf, and it was then seen at Manhattan Theatre Club. Her play AN E ...
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