Description
"Would the real Branden Jacobs-Jenkins please stand up? Throughout half a dozen plays, the restless, talented writer has flaunted a genius for polymorphous perversity. In Everybody, characters argue about racial insensitivity and political correctness, but that almost feels like a red herring. This time, the writer is chasing a bigger, faster-moving target:
mortality and morality." --David Cote, Time Out New York
Inspired by the 15th century morality play Everyman, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' new work follows Everybody (played by one of five actors selected by lottery at the beginning of each performance) as he or she travels down a road toward life's greatest mystery and confronts the inevitable. An unpredictable and inventive inquiry into the ways we cope with our own mortality.
Author: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: 08/25/2026
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.20w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781636702704
ISBN10: 1636702708
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | Subjects & Themes | Death, Grief, Loss
- Drama | Contemporary
- Drama | African American & Black
About the Author
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a writer and theatre artist whose
plays include Purpose, Appropriate, The Comeuppance, Girls, Everybody, War, Gloria, An Octoroon, and Neighbors. He is a Professor in the Practice at Yale University and serves as Vice President of The Dramatists Guild council. He has been the recipient of two Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, the MacArthur Fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award.