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This new play by award-winning Mississippi actor / director / playwright John Maxwell (of "Oh, Mr. Faulkner, Do You Write" fame) was developed as part of the Eudora Welty New Play Series at New Stage Theatre. An imaginative exploration of the relationship of the biblical characters Sarah and Abraham across their lifetimes, it's a modern meditation on faith, hope, love, and sacrifice, infused with
a sense of humor as well as humanity.
SHOW TIMES: NOV 12-15 @ 7PM, NOV 16 @ 2:30 PM
General Admission $20; Student/Senior/Military w/ID $15.
All shows take place at New Stage's Warehouse Theatre, 1000 Monroe St, Jackson, MS.
Secure Parking will be provided.
For tickets, scan the QR code on the poster above,
or click the Purchase Tickets button at the bottom of the page.
From the Playwright:
I started writing WE NEED TO TALK in the late 1980’s. It was like an old friend that I would visit when I had finished writing another monologue or play. I would take it out, work with it for a few weeks, then find another project to work on. In the beginning it was written through the perspective of Abraham. What was his story through the early years with Sarah with a Voice in the wilderness who told him to leave their homeland in Haran only, as a result, to find themselves in a famine? What was life like for them in Canaan and their efforts to have a son? Then after finally being “given” a son by that same Voice in the field, to hear that it wanted that son back again?
I wrote this play through Abraham’s perspective and was good with it for a while. We did a couple of readings of the play in the Hewes Room at New Stage, as a selection for the Eudora Welty new play series, and it went well. However, I was not finished with it. I began to “piddle” with it some more, and decided to write the story through Sarah’s perspective. The result was the current script. Writing through the perspective of a female was a real challenge for a heterosexual male, but I soon found it frightfully easy!
The result in all of this is what audiences will see at The Warehouse Theatre. It is a work of fiction, based on the life of Sarah and Abraham and Isaac, as told in the book of Genesis in the Old Testament. It is not intended in any way to be a re-telling of the story, but it is a re-imagining that story through modern eyes. I decided to simply limit the story to the relationship between Abraham and Sarah. All other characters as told in the Old Testament may be referred to in this re-imaging but never seen. Anachronisms abound. Were tomatoes even around in that day and time?
Did they knit? For the “literalist,” this re-telling will drive you crazy. I make no apologies. It is what I do. Hope all enjoy. - John Maxwell
a sense of humor as well as humanity.
SHOW TIMES: NOV 12-15 @ 7PM, NOV 16 @ 2:30 PM
General Admission $20; Student/Senior/Military w/ID $15.
All shows take place at New Stage's Warehouse Theatre, 1000 Monroe St, Jackson, MS.
Secure Parking will be provided.
For tickets, scan the QR code on the poster above,
or click the Purchase Tickets button at the bottom of the page.
From the Playwright:
I started writing WE NEED TO TALK in the late 1980’s. It was like an old friend that I would visit when I had finished writing another monologue or play. I would take it out, work with it for a few weeks, then find another project to work on. In the beginning it was written through the perspective of Abraham. What was his story through the early years with Sarah with a Voice in the wilderness who told him to leave their homeland in Haran only, as a result, to find themselves in a famine? What was life like for them in Canaan and their efforts to have a son? Then after finally being “given” a son by that same Voice in the field, to hear that it wanted that son back again?
I wrote this play through Abraham’s perspective and was good with it for a while. We did a couple of readings of the play in the Hewes Room at New Stage, as a selection for the Eudora Welty new play series, and it went well. However, I was not finished with it. I began to “piddle” with it some more, and decided to write the story through Sarah’s perspective. The result was the current script. Writing through the perspective of a female was a real challenge for a heterosexual male, but I soon found it frightfully easy!
The result in all of this is what audiences will see at The Warehouse Theatre. It is a work of fiction, based on the life of Sarah and Abraham and Isaac, as told in the book of Genesis in the Old Testament. It is not intended in any way to be a re-telling of the story, but it is a re-imagining that story through modern eyes. I decided to simply limit the story to the relationship between Abraham and Sarah. All other characters as told in the Old Testament may be referred to in this re-imaging but never seen. Anachronisms abound. Were tomatoes even around in that day and time?
Did they knit? For the “literalist,” this re-telling will drive you crazy. I make no apologies. It is what I do. Hope all enjoy. - John Maxwell
