This Bitter Earth (NHB Modern Plays) - Softcover

Rivers, Harrison David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1839044888 ISBN 13: 9781839044885

Verlag: Nick Hern Books, 2025

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'Look, you don't have to join the movement or whatever. You don't have to march or rally or call or write letters or even get fucking angry. I don't care about that. I don't. What I do care about is YOU.'

Jesse, an introspective Black playwright, finds his choices challenged when his boyfriend, Neil, a white Black Lives Matter activist, calls him out for his political apathy.

As passions and priorities collide, the two of them are forced to reckon with divisions of race and class, and the bravery it takes to love unconditionally.

Harrison David Rivers's play This Bitter Earth is an intimate, romantic and gripping drama that explores what it means to love outside the box. It premiered at the New Conservatory Theatre Center, San Francisco, in 2017. This edition was published alongside its production at Soho Theatre, London, in 2025, directed by Billy Porter and starring Omari Douglas and Alexander Lincoln.

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Harrison David Rivers is an award-winning American playwright, librettist and television writer based in St. Paul, Minnesota.

His works include The Salvagers (Yale Rep), we are continuous (Diversionary, Uptown Players, New Conservatory Theatre Center, Geva Theatre Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival), the bandaged place (Roundabout), This Bitter Earth (Ball State University, Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre, White Bear Theatre, Seattle Public, TheatreWorks Hartford, InterAct, The Road, Richmond Triangle Players, Theater Alliance, About Face, Penumbra, NCTC), and an adaptation of A Christmas Carol (Geva Theatre Center), among others, and the musicals We Shall Someday (formerly Broadbend, Arkansas) with Ted Shen (Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Missouri University of Science & Technology, Theater Latté Da, Joe's Pub, Signature Theatre, The Studio Theatre Tierra Del Sol, Transport Group/Public Theater) and Last of the Red Hot Mamas with Sue and Lloyd Ecker (Bucks County Playhouse).

His television credits include One of Us Is Lying (Peacock), The Nevers (HBO) and Wytches (Amazon).

Author photo by Jeff Wheeler

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Nick Hern Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1839044888
• ISBN 13: 9781839044885
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 88
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