The Lark Ascending

by Jacob K Robinson

It’s the first week of advent at a megachurch in Texas and a congregant’s baby has died. Mike, the head pastor, is praying for resurrection. Tess, the worship pastor, is praying for release. Gideon, her husband, is just trying to help. And they’re all barely holding on. The Lark Ascending is a play about reckoning with a garden overrun with vines, about bolstering and faltering faith, about darkness and light...

It’s the first week of advent at a megachurch in Texas and a congregant’s baby has died. Mike, the head pastor, is praying for resurrection. Tess, the worship pastor, is praying for release. Gideon, her husband, is just trying to help. And they’re all barely holding on. The Lark Ascending is a play about reckoning with a garden overrun with vines, about bolstering and faltering faith, about darkness and light and how, in the end, they might be the same thing.

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The Lark Ascending

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  • Playwrights Foundation: The Lark Ascending by Jacob K Robinson
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    The community of National Committee readers for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced THE LARK ASCENDING as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We highly enjoyed the sunrise and sunset structure of this piece as well as recognizable relationships as characters navigate complex emotional moments. We were engaged by the intimacy in the questioning of faith, and grief within religious community. We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in this play’s journey towards production. #BAPF46

    The community of National Committee readers for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced THE LARK ASCENDING as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We highly enjoyed the sunrise and sunset structure of this piece as well as recognizable relationships as characters navigate complex emotional moments. We were engaged by the intimacy in the questioning of faith, and grief within religious community. We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in this play’s journey towards production. #BAPF46

    ”

Development History

  • Reading, Columbia University, 2022

Awards

  • Bay Area Playwrights Festival
    Playwrights Foundation
    Semi-Finalist
    2023