Furlough's Paradise

by a.k. payne

On a three-day furlough from prison, Sade stays with her only cousin, Mina. On a brief reprieve from her life in the West Coast, Mina returns to her hometown for her Aunt's funeral. The cousins try to make sense of grief, home, love, and kinship as time ticks towards the correctional officer's arrival.

On a three-day furlough from prison, Sade stays with her only cousin, Mina. On a brief reprieve from her life in the West Coast, Mina returns to her hometown for her Aunt's funeral. The cousins try to make sense of grief, home, love, and kinship as time ticks towards the correctional officer's arrival.

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Furlough's Paradise

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  • Benjamin Benne: Furlough's Paradise

    This is one of those rare plays that really just cuts right to the heart and stays there, and now it holds a space in mine and always will. It's so simple and streamlined in its storytelling that it feels like I inhaled it in a single breath. But it's by no means easy, it gets right into the knotty grievances shared between its characters and reveals more and more layers of grief that they are moving through. Beautiful, delicate, complicated portrait of a very specific relationship.

    This is one of those rare plays that really just cuts right to the heart and stays there, and now it holds a space in mine and always will. It's so simple and streamlined in its storytelling that it feels like I inhaled it in a single breath. But it's by no means easy, it gets right into the knotty grievances shared between its characters and reveals more and more layers of grief that they are moving through. Beautiful, delicate, complicated portrait of a very specific relationship.

  • Shaun Leisher: Furlough's Paradise

    A stunning play about grief and love. A piece of pure poetry that explores the bond between two cousins living very different lives. This play needs to get produced all over.

    A stunning play about grief and love. A piece of pure poetry that explores the bond between two cousins living very different lives. This play needs to get produced all over.

Production History

  • Type Professional, Organization Alliance Theatre, Year 2024
  • Type University, Organization Yale School of Drama, Year 2023

Awards

  • Alliance/Kendeda National Playwriting Competition
    Alliance Theatre
    Winner
    2023
  • Barrie and Bernice Stavis Playwright Award
    National Theater Conference
    Winner
    2023