Synopsis

Airline Highway

Airline Highway $13

Lisa DAmour

Published by Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 5 Female

A dark comedy set In the parking lot of the Hummingbird Motel, off the titular highway near New Orleans

The hotel's residents have gathered to celebrate the life of Miss Ruby, an iconic burlesque queen who has been a mother figure to them all

Miss Ruby's life is nearing its end, and she requests that her funeral take place while she is still alive so she can attend the festivities

As the Mardi Gras-esque celebration continues into the night, the stories of the residents, their pain and disappointments unfold

REVIEWS

" a beautiful and mesmerizing kaleidoscope of a play" ~ New York Magazine

" ... a compassionate but unvarnished collective portrait of the underclass of New Orleans" ~ The New York Times

" a gentle, even sentimental, portrait of those who keep New Orleans humming while much of Airline Highway is about the lives of those who form a tight community in their cheap hotel, the other side involves the preservation of New Orleans' distinctively outre counterculture" ~ Chicago Tribune

"D'Amour's deep and decidedly soulful work takes us convincingly into the world of the 'real' New Orleans As she did in her suburban-set Pulitzer finalist Detroit, D'Amour demonstrates a special insight into both how place defines people and how people seek to define themselves against the expectations of the American dream D'Amour has written another quintessentially American work" ~ Variety

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