MATTHEW LOPEZ
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Matthew Lopez
Whipping Man, The |
| 1st Produced: | Montclair, NJ | 2006 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Playmarket | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: In April 1865, American slaves were set free throughout the South after centuries of bondage. That this event coincided with the start of Passover is a historical coincidence from which "The Whipping Man" springs. Set in the ruins of a once-grand Virginia home at the end of the Civil War, the play tells the story of three men: a Jewish confederate soldier and two of his former slaves, also Jewish, who wait together for their families to return. As they wait, they explore the master and slave relationship that formed their past and contemplate their future in a suddenly and fundamentally new world. "The Whipping Man" is about the upheaval of a society, the simultaneous exhilaration and terror of freedom and, finally, about moral and religious hypocrisy. | ||||
