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Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 3w, 2m
Jiehae Park
Asian-American twins M and L have given up everything to get into The College in this darkly comedic take on Shakespeare’s Macbeth about the very ambitious and the cut-throat world of high school during college admissions.
Image: 2015 Yale Repertory Theatre Production (Joan Marcus)
Asian-American twins M and L have given up everything to get into The College. So when D, a one-sixteenth Native American classmate, gets “their” spot instead, they figure they’ve got only one option: kill him. A darkly comedic take on Shakespeare’s Macbeth about the very ambitious and the cut-throat world of high school during college admissions.
Peerless premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, CT in November 2015 under the direction of Margot Bordelon.
M & L – Twin sisters. AsianBF – M’s boyfriend. BlackD – Male. Looks (really) white. 1/16 Native American.DIRTY GIRL – aka Caroline aka That Weird Girl in High School You Know The One.D’s BROTHER – (doubles with D)PREPPY GIRL – (doubles with DIRTY GIRL)
Midwestern suburbia. High School.
“Suitably spooky, fitfully funny.” – San Diego Union-Tribune
“Peerless is neither an over-the-top farce nor a moralistic downer. It’s frothy fun, full of goofy dancing and awkward romantic fumbles in the classic John Hughes style. Yet Peerless is as scary as it is silly. It’s about anger and cruelty and danger and life and death. It’s also about coming-of-age and coming to grips with mortality.” – Hartford Courant
“A theatrical genre-bending piece... Peerless is concerned not only about the broader socio-academic-cultural issue but also the human toll.” – The Berkshire Eagle
“With its staccato rhythms, short scenes, and farcical characters, unlike any you’ve ever seen before onstage, it’s hard to know how to characterize this play, except to say that it’s unexpectedly wonderful.” – The Arts Fuse
ON BREAKING CHARACTER
5 Things I Learned from Performing in Peerless by Jiehae ParkCoryn Carson3 December 2018
Playwright Interview: Jiehae Parkby Trevor Reece 8 November 2018
Reviews for Peerless at Yale Rep
Behind the scenes of Yale Rep's Peerless.
Jiehae Park's plays include peerless (Yale Rep premiere, Cherry Lane MP, Marin Theatre Co, Barrington Stage, First Floor, Company One, Moxie), Hannah and the Dread Gazebo (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Here We Are Here (Sundance Theater-Makers residency, Berkeley Rep’s Ground ...