STILL LIFE

by Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich

Lydia’s daughter hasn’t returned home since a series of subway bombings in an unnamed city. Now Lydia’s forced to wait for the news with her annoying son-in-law, Donald, and a mysterious millennial photographer who won’t stop following her. A darkly comic look at the way we adjust to life and loss in a terrorist age.
STILL LIFE received a workshop in Seattle at Forward Flux Productions. It was nominated for the...

Lydia’s daughter hasn’t returned home since a series of subway bombings in an unnamed city. Now Lydia’s forced to wait for the news with her annoying son-in-law, Donald, and a mysterious millennial photographer who won’t stop following her. A darkly comic look at the way we adjust to life and loss in a terrorist age.
STILL LIFE received a workshop in Seattle at Forward Flux Productions. It was nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and received honorary mention on The Kilroy List. It received a reading in NYC at the Cherry Lane and has been developed in NYC, Chicago, LA, Boston, and Rochester. It won the Israel Baran Award and was a runner up for a Princess Grace Fellowship, the O’Neill Theatre Conference, and Bay Area Playwrights Festival. 

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  • Cheryl Bear: STILL LIFE

    In the aftermath of the most horrific tragedy a mother could be asked to bear, a deeply moving relationship evolves between that annoying son-in-law and herself as they struggle to cope. Excellent work.

    In the aftermath of the most horrific tragedy a mother could be asked to bear, a deeply moving relationship evolves between that annoying son-in-law and herself as they struggle to cope. Excellent work.

  • Unicorn Theatre: STILL LIFE

    This play was a SEMIFINALIST for the 2019-2020 In-Progress New Play Reading Series at Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri. It is our pleasure to support STILL LIFE.

    This play was a SEMIFINALIST for the 2019-2020 In-Progress New Play Reading Series at Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri. It is our pleasure to support STILL LIFE.

Development History

  • Type Reading, Organization Theatricum Botanicum, Year 2016
  • Type Workshop, Organization Forward Flux, Year 2015
  • Type Workshop, Organization Geva Theatre, Year 2014

Awards

  • Susan Smith Blackburn Award (Nominated)
    2015
  • The Kilroy List
    Honorable Mention
    2014
  • Israel Baran Award
    Theatricum Botanicum
    Winner
    2017