The Antipodes

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The Antipodes

Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy  /  2w, 7m

CRITICS PICK! "In-all-ways fabulous...Ms. Baker delivers a complete and confident narative...The Antipodes is also deeply funny, but it’s naturally funny, and if it’s a satire, it’s an organic one. This playwright doesn’t need to exaggerate to elicit what’s absurd in the human condition." - The New York Times
  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    2w, 7m
  • Duration
    Duration
    120 minutes (2 hours)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Fable/Folktale, Experimental
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

Details

Summary
The Antipodes is a play about people telling stories about telling stories.
Cast Attributes
Performing Groups
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
  • Additional Features No Intermission
  • Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Cautions
    • Strong Language

Media

“It's all so sharp, and so pertinent, venturing to worlds where most playwrights fear to tread. Hours after the performance had ended, I found I was still thinking of the play and its themes, pulling at threads, thrilled by its rich ambition. Annie Baker. What a writer.” – WhatsOnStage

“… another cryptic masterpiece from Annie Baker” – Time Out

“The truth is that beneath its laconic surface, The Antipodesis endlessly shifting and complex, and it’s about an enormous number of things.” – Time Out

“It's a play that, through an intricate intertwining of subject and form, asks big questions about the purpose of stories, who gets to tell them, and whether they can or should have a real-world impact.” – Broadway World

“Although less emotionally devastating than some of her other work, with the distancing of its experimentation, it's still spry, surprising, very funny, and likely to haunt the subconscious…” – Broadway World

Licensing & Materials

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Authors

Annie Baker

Annie Baker's full-length plays include The Flick (Playwrights Horizons, OBIE Award for Playwriting, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons, OBIE Award for Best New American Play, Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), The Aliens (Ratt ...
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