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"One of the most searing performances in recent memory! An absorbing tale of conscience and connection.” — The Boston Globe
"A theatrical tour de force!” — TheaterMania
"Radiant and searing! Sizzles with erotic energy. Flawless.” — WBUR
"A MUST-SEE! Brilliant performances. Prepare to be moved!” — Joyce Kulhawik, Joyce’sChoices
On his way home after a year in East Africa, a young aid worker goes back to a shabby Amsterdam hotel room with a fellow American. The two strangers look for redemption from their pasts and confess their shared fear that they betrayed the people who needed them most. A passionate encounter becomes a chance to confront the truth in this new play by Huntington Playwriting Fellow Ken Urban and directed by Colman Domingo (“Fear the Walking Dead”).
Approximate run time: 75 minutes with no intermission. Please note: This production includes the use of strobe lighting effects.
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“It is incredibly meaningful to me that my play about two friends from Boston will premiere here. The Huntington has supported my work since 2007 and being a part of this season feels like coming home.”— Playwright Ken Urban
“Ken Urban is one of the most exciting writers and most generous of human beings. The Huntington is a theatre where I've created groundbreaking work with Mary Zimmerman (Journey to the West) and with Lisa Kron (Well). What an exciting time to dive into the deep end of the pool with Ken's latest work A Guide for the Homesick. A home that is built to examine our inner human struggles and global crisis. I am thrilled to be at the helm of this collaboration.”— Director Colman Domingo
“Huntington Playwriting Fellow Ken Urban is a rising star in American playwriting. I was enraptured by this play and the deeply romantic, highly political way it explores the connection between East Africa and Boston. Under the seductively theatrical direction of Colman Domingo, this play is a striking exploration of danger and desire.”— Huntington Artistic Director Peter DuBois
In A Guide for the Homesick, two strangers confess their shared fear that they betrayed the people who needed them most.
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Step into the rehearsal hall of Ken Urban's arresting new drama A Guide for the Homesick.
"It will wreck you. You'll love it." Audiences who saw A Guide for the Homesick share their thoughts on this powerful new play.
"A MUST-SEE!" 'A theatrical tour de force!" Critics are saying A Guide for the Homesick is "one of the most searing performances in recent memory!"
Enjoy a series of brief interviews with A Guide for the Homesick cast members McKinley Belcher III (Teddy & Nicholas) and Sam Levine (Jeremy & Ed).
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Director of New Work Charles Haugland and Playwright Ken Urban discuss the creation of A Guide for the Homesick.
Sarah Schnebly explores the historical context of A Guide for the Homesick.
Ken Urban is a Huntington Playwriting Fellowand his plays include A Guide for the Homesick (2017), Nibbler, Sense of an Ending, The Correspondent, A Future Perfect, The Awake, and The Happy Sad. His plays have been produced and developed at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Summer Play Festival @ The Public, Donmar Warehouse (London), The Flea, Studio 42, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Playwrights Horizons, Irish Rep, Primary Stages, and Huntington Theatre Company.
Colman Domingo most recently directed A Guide for the Homesick (2017) at Huntington Theatre Company. Mr.Domingo is a Tony and Olivier Award nominated artist. His most recent directing work includes the West Coast premiere of Barbecue by Robert O’Hara for Geffen Playhouse, Seven Guitars by August Wilson for the Actors Theater of Louisville, and the Off Broadway Alliance Award-winning musical, A Band of Angels for the New York City Children’s Theater.
McKinley Belcher III previously appeared in A Guide for the Homesick (2017), Smart People (2014), and Invisible Man (2013) at the Huntington.
Samuel H. Levine previously appeared in the Huntington's production of A Guide for the Homesick (2017). Off Broadway credits include Kill Floor (LCT3, directed by Lila Neugebauer) and Alligator (New Georges and the Sol Project), as well as the reading of The Inheritance (The Public Theater,directed by Stephen Daldry).
William Boles previously designed the set for the Hungtington's production of A Guide for the Homesick (2017).He recently designed the Off Broadway production of If Only (Cherry Lane Theatre).
Kara Harmon previously designed A Guide for the Homesick (2017) at the Huntington. She designed Dot (Vineyard Theatre) Off Broadway and has regional credits that include The Wiz! (Ford’s Theatre) A Raisin in the Sun (Indiana Repertory Theatre), We, the Invisibles and Seven Guitars (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Nina Simone: Four Women (Arena Stage), In the Heights (Geva Theatre Center), Native Gardens (Guthrie Theatre/Arena Stage), The Legend of Georgia McBride (Marin Theatre Company), Ragtime and The Mountaintop (Trinity Repertory Theatre), Barbecue (Geffen Playhouse), The Rape of Lucretia (Wolf Trap Opera),Much Ado and The Comedy of Errors (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Safehouse (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), and Ethel and God of Carnage (Alliance Theatre).
Russell H. Champa previously designed A Guide for the Homesick (2017), Now or Later (2012), and Captors (2011) at the Huntington. His current and recent projects include Shakespeare in Love (Cleveland Play House), Sacred Valley (New York Stage and Film), Imaginary Invalid (Fiasco Theater/The Old Globe)...
Lindsay Jones recently designed for A Guide for the Homesick (2017) at Huntington Theatre Company. Mr. Jones has Broadway credits that include A Time to Kill and Bronx Bombers. Off Broadway, he has designed Privacy, Dry Powder, and Barbecue (The Public Theater/NYSF), Bella and Bootycandy (Playwrights Horizons), Mr. Joy (LCT3), Top Secret (New York Theatre Workshop), Discord and Rx (Primary Stages), and many others.
Alaine Alldaffer is also the casting director for Playwrights Horizons, where her credits include Grey Gardens (also for Broadway), Clybourne Park (also for Broadway), and Circle Mirror Transformation (Drama Desk and Obie Awards for Best Ensemble and an Artios Award for casting).
Jeremy Stoller has served as dramaturg on the world premieres of Ken Urban’s A Guide for the Homesick (2017) (Huntington Theatre Company), Nibbler (The Amoralists at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), Paper Canoe’s Light (Triskelion Arts), Thomas Choinacky and John Jarbo’s Beaut, and R. Eric Thomas’s Will You Accept This Friend Request? (First Person Arts); and on the US premiere of Ken Urban's Sense of an Ending (59E59 Theaters).
Amy Stoller is the resident dialect designer at Off Broadway’s Mint Theater Company, where her most recent project is The New York Times Critics’ Pick The Suitcase Under the Bed; up next is Hindle Wakes.
Adele Nadine Traub previously stage managed A Guide for the Homesick (2017) and I Was Most Alive with You (2016) for the Huntington. She is a founding company member with Actors’ Shakespeare Project where she has stage managed 23 shows over the past 13 seasons.
Jeremiah Mullane returns to the Huntington having previously stage managed Fall (2018), Bad Dates (2018), A Guide for the Homesick (2017), The Who & the What (2017), A Doll's House (2017), Tiger Style! (2016), August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned (2016), Disgraced (2016), Choice (2015), The Second Girl (2015), Awake and Sing! (2014), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (2014), The Seagull (2014), The Cocktail Hour (2013), The Jungle Book (2013),and Invisible Man (2013).
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