Three Shitty Sons

by Hannah Kenah

THREE SHITTY SONS is the story of three shitty sons who love the holidays and, in other news, are plotting their mother's death. As Mamu scrapes around the house enduring the torments of the idiot sons she raised, a lonely narrator finds a way to insert herself into the family’s dysfunction. A brutally-premised homage to Wilder's examinations of life and afterlife, this disheveled comedy mucks around in...

THREE SHITTY SONS is the story of three shitty sons who love the holidays and, in other news, are plotting their mother's death. As Mamu scrapes around the house enduring the torments of the idiot sons she raised, a lonely narrator finds a way to insert herself into the family’s dysfunction. A brutally-premised homage to Wilder's examinations of life and afterlife, this disheveled comedy mucks around in complicated renderings of gender, sentiment, and family ties.

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  • Playwrights Foundation: Three Shitty Sons by Hannah Kenah
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    Playwrights Foundation enthusiastically recommends this play, THREE SHITTY SONS, as a Semi-Finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2020. We were moved by the quality of the writing and the relevant and compelling themes that spoke to the mission of our festival. It excelled in a competitive process of 735 plays submitted this year and rose to the top after a six month long process discussing its merits with both national and local Bay Area readers, and we hope it moves swiftly towards production.

    Playwrights Foundation enthusiastically recommends this play, THREE SHITTY SONS, as a Semi-Finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2020. We were moved by the quality of the writing and the relevant and compelling themes that spoke to the mission of our festival. It excelled in a competitive process of 735 plays submitted this year and rose to the top after a six month long process discussing its merits with both national and local Bay Area readers, and we hope it moves swiftly towards production.

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