One Flea Spare

One Flea Spare

One Flea Spare, by Naomi Wallace, is an award-winning play set in plague-ravaged 17th Century London.

Play synopsis from Eclipse Theater:

A wealthy couple is preparing to flee their home when a mysterious sailor and a young girl appear sneaking into their boarded up house. Now, quarantined together for 28 days, the only thing these strangers fear more than the Plague is each other. Definitions of morality are up for grabs and survival takes many forms in this dark, fiercely intense & humorous play. The play deals with the clash of cultural, social, and sexual boundaries.[citation needed]

The play is published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.

The title is derived from the poem The Flea by John Donne.[citation needed]

One Flea Spare premièred in London at the Bush Theatre on 18 October 1995 and had its American premiere in Louisville, Kentucky at the Humana Festival of New American Plays on 27 February 1996.[1] The play opened in New York at The Public Theatre on 9 March 1997 and won the OBIE Award for best play; it also won the 1996 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the 1996 Joseph Kesselring Prize[2] and the 1996 Fellowship of Southern Writers Drama Award.[1]

In 2009 One Flea Spare was incorporated into the permanent répertoire of the French National Theater, the Comédie-Française. Wallace is the only living American playwright to enter the répertoire.[3] Only two American Playwrights have ever been added to La Comédie's repertoire in 300 years: the other being Tennessee Williams. The play was translated into French by Dominique Hollier.

References

  1. ^ a b Wallace, Naomi (2001). In the Heart of America, and Other Plays. Theatre Communications Group. p. 3. ISBN 9781559361866. http://books.google.com/books?id=eu9Dh_WlHwwC&pg=PA3&dq=naomi+wallace+one+flea+spare&hl=en&ei=xNcdTsCmIYnLgQfcqcnECQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFYQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=naomi%20wallace%20one%20flea%20spare&f=false. Retrieved 13 July 2011. 
  2. ^ Kushner, Tony (1998). "Poetry, Plays, Politics, and Shifting Geographies: Naomi Wallace". In Robert Vorlicky. Tony Kushner in Conversation. University of Michigan Press. pp. 255–256. ISBN 9780472066612. http://books.google.com/books?id=ebC7ETTP-eQC&pg=PA255&dq=naomi+wallace+one+flea+spare&hl=en&ei=xNcdTsCmIYnLgQfcqcnECQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=naomi%20wallace%20one%20flea%20spare&f=false. Retrieved 13 July 2011. 
  3. ^ Edwards, Martin. "Naomi Wallace talks to Martin Edwards". act up blog. act up. http://www.act-up.co.uk/blog/2011/04/naomi-wallace-talks-to-martin-edwards/. Retrieved 13 July 2011. 

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