When:
January 30, 2015 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm
2015-01-30T20:00:00-05:00
2015-01-30T23:00:00-05:00
Where:
Yale Repertory Theater
Yale University
1120 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510
USA
Yale University
1120 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510
USA
Cost:
$45.00
Contact:
World Premiere: FAMILIAR
By DANAI GURIRA
Directed by REBECCA TAICHMAN
Commissioned by Yale Repertory Theatre
January 30-February 21, 2015
Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel Street)
About Familiar
In a snowy Midwestern suburb, Marvelous and Donald are preparing for the marriage of their eldest daughter. Clashes erupt within the family when the first-generation American bride-to-be insists on observing a traditional Zimbabwean wedding ritual. Familiar is a richly funny and deeply moving new play about the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters, sisters, wives and husbands—the customs they keep, and the secrets they keep buried.
Born in the U.S. and raised in Zimbabwe, OBIE and Whiting Writers Award winning playwright Danai Gurira is the author of the critically acclaimed plays Eclipsed (Yale Rep, 2009), the Pulitzer Prize finalist In the Continuum (co-written with Nikkole Salter; Yale Rep, 2007), and The Convert. Rebecca Taichman’s previous Yale Rep credits include the world premieres of David Adjmi’s Marie Antoinette and The Evildoers.
