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    Pipeline (TCG Edition)
    Pipeline (TCG Edition)
    Pipeline (TCG Edition)
    Ebook85 pages57 minutes

    Pipeline (TCG Edition)

    By Dominique Morisseau

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    Pipeline had its premiere at Lincoln Center Theater (Off-Broadway) in the summer of 2017.

    Dominique Morisseau won the 2015 Steinberg Playwright Award for promising dramatists.

    Morriseau is an actor and playwright. She has been Award the NAACP Image Award twice for outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts and for promoting social justice through her work.

    Morriseau’s plays often comment on racial, economic and social tensions.

    Morriseau grew up in Detroit and is currently working on a collection of plays titled The Detroit Projects, inspired by August Wilson's ten play cycle set in Pittsburg.

    Detroit ‘67 explores racial and economic challenges for the characters. The play received the 2014 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History.

    Paradise Blue tell the story of a musician who must overcome moral dilemmas to live out his dream. This play received the L. Arnold Weissberger Award (2012) and the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award.

    Skeleton Crew delves into the real challenges of a group of workers confront when faced with the possibilities of unemployment. The play had its world premiere in Linda Gross Theater with the Atlantic Theatre Company in spring of 2016.

    Morrisseau was awarded the City of Detroit: Spirit of Detroit Award.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTheatre Communications Group
    Release dateOct 30, 2018
    ISBN9781559369022
    Pipeline (TCG Edition)

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      This play is very boring and bad. I really could not recommend this play.
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      One of the most powerful and poignant plays I have ever read. Well crafted. I want more people to read this, see this and understand this.
    • 5/5
      Wonderfully written and thankfully, unapologetically black. Looking forward to more of Morisseau's work

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    Pipeline (TCG Edition) - Dominique Morisseau

    1

    Lights up on Nya. She is on the phone, though we don’t have to really see her holding anything. She is living the call.

    As she speaks, images flow behind her: camera-phone video clips of school fights, disjointed and perhaps emerging less into video and more into large overwhelming shadows.

    NYA: Hey it’s … it’s me. I know I shouldn’t … but I don’t know what else to … we need to talk. It’s about our son. He got in a fight. On school grounds. They’re going to … … … they’re talking about … they’re talking kicking him out. They’re talking pressing charges. They’re going to … … … I don’t know what they’re going to … … … I’m just … (Beat beat beat) I’m exhausted. You know that? Like there is no more helium. I’m sinking. Like there is all this … weight … I can’t fight gravity. You know? Like I just can’t even fight this pulling down … taking all of my—I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t even know. (Beat beat beat beat beat)

    (Then randomly enthusiastic) So anyway! Give me a call back when you get a moment. So we can talk. Talk about. Your son. Our son. Us …

    …

    …

    (Long, awkward pause.)

    Yep. Okay. Bye.

    (Quick pause.)

    I um … I also miss you.

    (Beat.)

    Fuck. I shouldn’t have said that. I’m gonna … I should delete that. I’m gonna delete that.

    (She pushes a button. We hear the prompt that says: To erase and rerecord, press 3. She presses 3.

    Then, very professionally:)

    Hey, Xavier, it’s Nya. Calling to talk to you about our son. Give me a call back when you get this. Thanks. Bye.

    (Nya stands in silence for a moment. Then lights a cigarette. She leans her head to the side. Puffs.

    We hear a school bell ring.

    The distant sound of a school day starting. Hallways filled with lockers closing and gossip and trampling feet.

    A public address announcement comes through. It is fast and static:)

    PA (Offstage): Good morning students, welcome to another glorious day at Chadsey High. Please remember to take off your hats. No sagging allowed. New policy in effect today—homeroom teachers are now going to lock your cell phones and other non-school-issued devices in their drawers. You will retrieve them at the end of the day. If you have any objections to this, then you are free to leave your devices at home. If you are caught with any non-approved electronic device in class, this is an automatic suspension. No exceptions. I repeat (Loudly) NO EXCEPTIONS! Please do not have your mamas coming up here demanding to get your smart phones back. We have the city government behind us. You cannot win. I repeat (Loudly) YOU CANNOT WIN! Also, there is a pep rally today after school. Be sure to attend and show your school pride. And finally, have a glorious day, students. (Loudly) A GLORIOUS DAY!

    (Nya puts her cigarette out on her shoe. Waves the smoke out the window. Then she moves toward a door and opens it.)

    NYA: Mornin, class. Pull out your pens. Pop quiz today.

    (Groans and sucking teeth are heard. The shadows become harsh fluorescent lights. They bleach us into blindness.)

    2

    A girl’s dormitory. Bedroom.

    Jasmine and Omari.

    JASMINE: Tell me you wasn’t lookin’ at her.

    OMARI: I wasn’t lookin’ at her.

    JASMINE: Oughta cut her face.

    OMARI: I wasn’t lookin’ at her.

    JASMINE: Thinkin’ she’s so cute.

    OMARI: I wasn’t lookin’ at her.

    JASMINE: She ain’t that cute.

    OMARI: I was kinda lookin’ at her.

    JASMINE: What?

    OMARI: Just like a little bit.

    JASMINE: What’s a little bit?

    OMARI: Like modestly. With no intention. Just observing.

    JASMINE: What you got to be observing for?

    OMARI: To take in my surroundings. Learn the world. Not be just tied up in my own existence and nothin’ else.

    JASMINE: Everything’s more important to you than me.

    OMARI: You important to me.

    JASMINE: Not hardly. You just biding your time. Till you figure out what to do next. Ain’t that it?

    OMARI: Why would you say

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