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The Gimmick

$13.00
Qty:
One Act, Short Play
1 woman
Total Cast: 1, Flexible Set
ISBN-13: 978-0-8222-1883-8


MIN. PERFORMANCE FEE: $40 per performance.
THE STORY: THE GIMMICK tells the story of Alexis and Jimmy, a pair of outsiders who forge a friendship through their shared passion for art. Theirs is a love more powerful than the ghetto gimmicks that devastate much of the Harlem of their youth. When one falls, the bond that has kept them whole threatens to destroy them both.
“Scorching…terrible and touching…M. Orlandersmith is herself wholly original, a riveting combatant in a story, like all war stories, that stamps her as one who has been there.” —The New York Times.

“[Orlandersmith’s] depictions of the characters in her native East Harlem neighborhood—some broken, some on the way down—are passionate and full of insight. —The New Yorker.

Included in the collection The Gimmick and Other Plays.