Full-Length Drama • 1 intermission
4 women • 2 men
Blaze is angry, and with good reason. She’s getting kicked out of her mom’s trailer park on the drug addled Gulf Coast of Louisiana, where part time work at the Dairy Freeze is the most she has to look forward to. That is, until her YouTube channel attracts a mysterious commenter whose words point to a brighter alternative, one that is a dangerous Google search away from unfathomable consequences. A White Girl’s Guide to International Terrorism is the fictionalized epic of a hidden reality in post 9/11 America, where poverty is the battle and misinformation is the weapon.
A WHITE GIRL’S GUIDE TO INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM received its World Premier as part of SF Playhouse’s Sandbox Series in February 2019. The production was directed by Morgan Green.
A WHITE GIRL’S GUIDE TO INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM (San Francisco Playhouse Sandbox Series)
All photos by Adam Tolbert.
Directed by Morgan Green | Scenic Design – Maya Linke | Lighting and Projection Design – Wolfgang Wachalovsky | Sound Design – Madeleine Oldham | Props Design – Stephanie Dittbern | Costumes – Alice Ruiz | Stage Manager – Alex Bailey Dillon | Featuring – Arwen Anderson, Isabel Langen, Davied Morales, Neire Rojo, Mohammad Shehata, and Liz Sklar
REVIEWS
““A White Girl’s Guide to International Terrorism” isn’t playing the game you think it’s playing. It feints and reverses, dropping red herrings, deploying ruses. It’s about a white girl, and yet it’s also not at all. … Marcantel doesn’t merely set out to indict American society for hollowing out its middle… [she] is also interested in whose stories we tell, whose stories obsess us.” — The San Francisco Chronicle
“Marcantel shines a penetrating light on ethnic stereotypes that flourish in the safety of darkness. ” — The San Francisco Chronicle
“A soulful social drama… a finely observed depiction of small-town life on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, an American Tragedy of drug addiction, dead-end jobs, and precarious aspirations.” — Bay Area Reporter
REPRESENTATION
ICM Partners
Di Glazer (Theatre)
DGlazer@icmpartners.com
Heroes & Villains Entertainment
Benjamin Blake (Manager)
Chris Coggins (Manager)
323.850.2990