Furlough's Paradise - Paperback
by A. K. Payne
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Availability:In StockContributor:A. K. PayneTheme:Ethnic Orientation/African American, Topical/Death/Dying, Topical/FamilyPublish date:7/14/2026Pages:122
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Concord TheatricalsISBN-13:9780573712036ISBN-10:0573712034UPC:9780573712036Book Category:Drama, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Death, Grief, Bereavement, TypeBook Topic:TragedySize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.26 inchesWeight:0.127Product ID:SC5P5T05MN
Cousins Sade and Mina used to be inseparable. Now leading very different lives, they return to their childhood town for the funeral of Sade's mother. While Sade is on a three-day furlough from prison and Mina experiences a brief reprieve from her career and life on the West Coast, the two try to make sense of grief, home, love and kinship. As the clock ticks down, the cousins grapple with their conflicting memories of the past and their shared hopes for the future. Poetic and theatrical, Furlough's Paradise explores family dreams of a utopia yet to be realized.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Concord TheatricalsISBN-13:9780573712036ISBN-10:0573712034UPC:9780573712036Book Category:Drama, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Death, Grief, Bereavement, TypeBook Topic:TragedySize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.26 inchesWeight:0.127Product ID:SC5P5T05MN
Payne, A. K.: - "a.k. payne (they/she) is a playwright, artist-theorist, and theatremaker with roots in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - and the winner of the 2025 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play Furlough's Paradise. Their plays love on and engage the interdependencies of Black pasts, presents and futures and seek to find/remember language that might move us towards our collective liberation(s). They hold a B.A. in English and African-American Studies from Yale College and an MFA in Playwriting under Tarell Alvin McCraney from fka Yale School of Drama. A 2023-2024 Van Lier New Voices Fellow, their work has been a finalist for the L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award and a 3x finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the largest international prize for women+ playwrights. Their work has been developed with the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, The New Harmony Project, Great Plains Theater Conference, and Manhattan Theater Club's Groundworks Lab."
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
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