Bootycandy

by Robert O'Hara

Overview

Robert O'Hara's semi-biographical subversive comedy exploded onto the New York theatre-scene with a critically lauded production at Playwrights Horizons. Bootycandy tells the story of Sutter who is on an outrageous odyssey through his childhood home his church dive bars motel rooms and even nursing homes. O'Hara weaves together scenes sermons sketches and daring meta-theatrics to create a kaleidoscope that interconnects to portray growing up gay and black. Robert O'Hara's uproarious satire crashes headlong into the murky terrain of pain and pleasure and... BOOTYCANDY.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780573703980
Publisher:	Concord Theatricals
Publication date:	12/31/2014
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Robert O’Hara is a playwright and director. His play Antebellum received a world premiere production from Woolly Mammoth Theater Company, and earned him a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play. He reworked The Wiz for its revival at La Jolla Playhouse. He wrote and directed the world premiere of Insurrection: Holding History (Public Theater, Oppenheimer Award for Best New American Play). As a director, he received an Obie Award for his direction of In the Continuum (Primary Stage/Perry Street Theater) and an NAACP Best Director Award for Eclipsed. He directed the world premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brother/Sister Plays (McCarter Theatre, The Public Theater), and has also directed at Yale Repertory Theatre, Center Theatre Group, American Conservatory Theatre, Magic Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Goodman Theatre, and many others. He has written films for Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Jon Avnet, HBO, ABC, Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures, New Line/Fine Line Cinema and Artisan Entertainment. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and is the Mellon Playwright in Residence at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.