The Submission

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The Submission

Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy  /  1w, 3m plus ensemble

Jeff Talbott

"The Submission is a raw, unsentimental play about race and gender that exposes the quiet prejudice and intolerance among even our most progressive thinkers. It is both uncomfortable and impossible to not watch." - AP

Image: 2011 MCC Theater Production (Joan Marcus)

The Submission

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    1w, 3m plus ensemble
  • Duration
    Duration
    90 minutes
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary
Shaleeha G'ntamobi's stirring new play about an alcoholic black mother and her card sharp son trying to get out of the projects has just been accepted into the nation's preeminent theater festival. Trouble is, Shaleeha G'ntamobi doesn't exist, except in the imagination of wannabe-playwright Danny Larsen, who created her as a kind of affirmative-action nom-de-plume. But a nom-de-guerre may prove more useful as the lies pile up, shaky alliances are forged, and everyone dear to Danny must decide whether or not to run for cover as the whole thing threatens to blow up in his lily white face.
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  • Time Period Contemporary, New Millennium/21st Century
  • Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
  • Additional Features No Intermission
  • Duration 90 minutes
  • Cautions
    • Strong Language

Media

"THE SUBMISSION is a raw, unsentimental play about race and gender that exposes the quiet prejudice and intolerance among even our most progressive thinkers. It is both uncomfortable and impossible to not watch. . . . As for Talbott, it's a pleasure to see what he's capable of." - Associated Press

"Fearless, whip-smart, and hyperarticulate, Talbott's incendiary political comedy-drama asks hard questions about our supposedly post-racial world. . . . THE SUBMISSION is an important play. It makes you stop and think." - Backstage

"Jeff Talbott's THE SUBMISSION is incendiary, offensive, controversial and wonderfully inviting of debate . . . grabs the audience and doesn't let go for 100 minutes." - Hollywood Soapbox

"THE SUBMISSION [is a] sharp and enjoyable serious comedy [by] bright new playwright Jeff Talbott." - Newsday

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    Image: 2011 MCC Theater Production (Joan Marcus)

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Jeff Talbott

Jeff Talbott
Jeff Talbott graduated with honors from the Yale School of Drama.  His play The Submission was the inaugural recipient of the Laurents/Hatcher Award in 2011 and was produced Off-Broadway by MCC Theater; it also received the Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award for New Amer ...
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