The Last Great American Bear Hunt

by Lydia Blaisdell

A retro-future adventure with a lovesick bear.

An oligarch and his wife cyber-fuck in a MegaCity of skyscrapers, concrete, and reality radio. A father and his son take a chopper hunting expedition to The Wilds to bag the last grizzly. But the grizzly’s got a gun and out in those woods, nothing’s quite as clear-cut as it seems.

A morality tale set in a post-electric America.

A retro-future adventure with a lovesick bear.

An oligarch and his wife cyber-fuck in a MegaCity of skyscrapers, concrete, and reality radio. A father and his son take a chopper hunting expedition to The Wilds to bag the last grizzly. But the grizzly’s got a gun and out in those woods, nothing’s quite as clear-cut as it seems.

A morality tale set in a post-electric America.

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The Last Great American Bear Hunt

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  • Noah Casner: The Last Great American Bear Hunt

    Absolutely loved this play and its world-building! The relationships are brilliant and what a way to wrap everything up at the end. More plays like this please!!

    Absolutely loved this play and its world-building! The relationships are brilliant and what a way to wrap everything up at the end. More plays like this please!!

  • Gina Femia: The Last Great American Bear Hunt

    This play is completely badass, one of the most successful dystopian futures I've read in a play with a world that is not so similar to ours. Lydia's got a powerhouse of a voice and it's thoroughly represented in this amazing play.

    This play is completely badass, one of the most successful dystopian futures I've read in a play with a world that is not so similar to ours. Lydia's got a powerhouse of a voice and it's thoroughly represented in this amazing play.

  • Eugene O'Neill Theater Center: The Last Great American Bear Hunt

    It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Lydia Blaisdell and their play The Last Great American Bear Hunt as a finalist for our 2016 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one of 54 finalists out of more than 1,450 submissions, the strength of its writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process. Our readers especially responded to the wildly imaginative wrld of the play and deft structure of the storytelling.

    It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Lydia Blaisdell and their play The Last Great American Bear Hunt as a finalist for our 2016 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one of 54 finalists out of more than 1,450 submissions, the strength of its writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process. Our readers especially responded to the wildly imaginative wrld of the play and deft structure of the storytelling.

Development History

  • Type Reading, Organization UT Austin, Year 2015
  • Type Reading, Organization EST/Youngblood , Year 2014