Hunger: A Ten-Minute Play

by James McLindon

Separated by culture, language, geography and 150 years, an Irish Famine couple and a Middle-Eastern couple, make the same desperate decision.

Separated by culture, language, geography and 150 years, an Irish Famine couple and a Middle-Eastern couple, make the same desperate decision.

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Hunger: A Ten-Minute Play

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  • Sheila Rinear: Hunger: A Ten-Minute Play by James McLindon
    “

    What a sadly beautiful play James McLindon has written. He holds to the light the disaster of history's repetitious oppression by placing his story in the hands of two couples' final intimate moments. Really nice work.

    What a sadly beautiful play James McLindon has written. He holds to the light the disaster of history's repetitious oppression by placing his story in the hands of two couples' final intimate moments. Really nice work.

    ”
  • Cheryl Bear: Hunger: A Ten-Minute Play by James McLindon
    “

    A fantastic parallel as two generations of immigrants desperately try to survive. Great work!

    A fantastic parallel as two generations of immigrants desperately try to survive. Great work!

    ”
  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Hunger: A Ten-Minute Play by James McLindon
    “

    It is a beautiful thing how the theatre can show us so much and let us understand how we are all connected. McLindon has 2 actors double as Irish people during the famine and as a contemporary Middle Easterners desperate to survive today so that we might empathize with ourselves (some might say "others"). It is beautiful how actors can embody us all and remind us so easily with the shifting of a piece of cloth, the magic of the theatre, the miracles of humanity.

    It is a beautiful thing how the theatre can show us so much and let us understand how we are all connected. McLindon has 2 actors double as Irish people during the famine and as a contemporary Middle Easterners desperate to survive today so that we might empathize with ourselves (some might say "others"). It is beautiful how actors can embody us all and remind us so easily with the shifting of a piece of cloth, the magic of the theatre, the miracles of humanity.

    ”

Character Information

CAST OF CHARACTERS
(In Order Of Appearance)

MAN . . . . . . . . . . A FATHER AND HUSBAND, BETWEEN 25 and 30

WOMAN . . . . . . . . . . A MOTHER AND WIFE, ABOUT THE SAME AGE
  • Man
    A FATHER AND HUSBAND, FIRST 19th CENTURY IRISH AND THEN PRESENT-DAY MIDDLE-EASTERN.
    20s to mid-30s
    Any
    Male
    Can be played by:
    • Actor Age
      20s,
      30s,
      40s
    • Actor Gender Identity
      Male
  • Woman
    A MOTHER AND WIFE, FIRST 19th CENTURY IRISH AND THEN PRESENT-DAY MIDDLE-EASTERN.
    20s to mid-30s
    Any
    (assigned female at birth)
    Can be played by:
    • Actor Age
      20s,
      30s,
      40s
    • Actor Gender Identity
      Female

Development History

  • Reading, Cheshire Unicorn Gestation Series, Toronto, 2007

Production History

  • Professional, Estrogenius, 2009

Awards

  • SUNY College Brockport Festival of Ten
    SUNY College Brockport
    Finalist
    2009
  • Theatre Oxford National 10-minute Play contest
    Theatre Oxford
    Semi-Finalist
    2008