Mainstage Production
SHOTGUN
by John Biguenet
Director TBA
May 6 – 31 . 2009
previews May 6 . 7 . 8
opening May 9
World Premiere
For many, the most anticipated play of the season will be John Biguenet’s SHOTGUN, the second play in his Rising Water cycle, scheduled to make its world premiere in early May 2009 at Southern Rep.
Set four months after the flood, a white man and his teenage son made homeless by Katrina rent half of a shotgun double from an African-American woman, whose own father has lost his house in the Lower Ninth Ward and moved in with her. These four New Orleanians, white and black living under one roof, try to rebuild their lives in a city still in shambles. Seething racial tensions, however -- stoked by local politicians -- bubble to the surface when love blossoms.
Biguenet was honored with the inaugural Theatre Person of the Year at the 2007 Big Easy Awards. Southern Rep’s production of Biguenet’s Rising Water also caught the Best Original Play Award and was SRT’s best selling play, ever. Though a native son, his work is enjoyed nationally: the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, “Biguenet possesses a rare lyric gift.”
“[Rising Water] grabbed the audience in its first tense moments and never let go. Biguenet has created characters of such opposite dimensions that they generate innate humor, which continues deeper into the play than one would have thought possible. It is natural and needed; otherwise the situation would be unbearable.” — Times-Picayune
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