Lost Boy Found In Whole Foods
3 female, 3 male
In the early 90's in Sudan after civil war destroyed their villages, an exodus of boys trekked eight hundred miles across Africa before making it to refugee camps in Kenya where they lived on a bowl of grain a day for ten years. In 2001, the U.S. resettled 3,600 of these "Lost Boys" in cities across America. LOST BOY FOUND IN WHOLE FOODS tells the story of Christine, a middle-aged, middle class white woman who meets Gabriel, a former "Lost Boy" working in the produce section of Whole Foods in Pittsburgh. Moved by the story of the trauma he survived as a child, she invites him to live with her and her teenage daughter. The play explores what can happen when we open up ourselves to help another human being.
- Blog Post: Emotional Collisions: Lost Boy Found at Whole Foods,
from Poor Lessing's Theatre Almanack - "Remarkably touching" - Anita Gates, New York Times (link)
- "Stirring new play...a most potent play" - Peter Filichia, The New Jersey Star Ledger. (link)
- "See. This. Play." - Sherri Rase, Q onStage. (link)
- A featured play in the National New Play Networks 2009 National Showcase of Plays (link)
- Developed at the 2009 New Harmony Project
- Co-production at Premiere Stages and Playwrights Theater of New Jersey.
- Reading at Bricolage Theater Company's IN THE RAW series (link)
- Developed in Pittsburgh PlayWorks Play Development Lab
- (video: interview with Kim Zimmer)
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