Pipeline

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Pipeline

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  3f, 3m

Dominique Morisseau

"Pipeline is an emotionally harrowing, ethically ambiguous drama that raises barbed questions about class, race, parental duty, and the state of American education." - Variety

Image: 2017 Lincoln Center Theater Production (Jeremy Daniel)

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3f, 3m
  • Duration
    Duration
    90 minutes
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary
Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they’ll never have. When a controversial incident at his upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. But will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away? 

With profound compassion and lyricism, Pipeline brings an urgent conversation powerfully to the fore. Morisseau pens a deeply moving story of a mother’s fight to give her son a future — without turning her back on the community that made him who he is. 
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Performing Groups
  • Time Period Present Day
  • Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
  • Additional Features No Intermission
  • Duration 90 minutes
  • Cautions
    • Alcohol

Media

ON BREAKING CHARACTER

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Creating Community Connections

Nikki Battestelli
February 28, 2019

Videos

  • Dominique Morisseau describes Pipeline youtube thumbnail

    Dominique Morisseau describes Pipeline

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    Actress Karen Pittman discusses Pipeline

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    Pipeline Montage from Lincoln Center Theatre

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    Image: 2017 Lincoln Center Theater Production (Jeremy Daniel)

  • Pipeline

    Image: 2017 Lincoln Center Theater Production (Jeremy Daniel)

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Authors

Dominique Morisseau

Dominique Morisseau

Dominique Morisseau is the author of The Detroit Project (A 3-Play Cycle), which includes the following plays: Skeleton Crew (Atlantic Theater Company), Paradise Blue (Signature Theatre), and Detroit ’67 (Public Theater, Classical Theatre of Harlem and NBT). Additional plays ...

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