Synopsis
Northeast Local
Published by Dramatists Play Service
2 Male 2 Female
She, sensing emerging possibilities for women, hopes soon to find her calling. By the end of the first scene they have already conceived Stefan, and over the next decades they will struggle to stay afloat as time - and the times - move more quickly than either would have imagined
Other influences in Mickey and Gi's lives are Jesse, who's moved North from New Orleans to open a pastry shop, and Mickey's immigrant mother, Mair, who finds so many things about her new world impossible to accept
Northeast Local is an elegy for a certain time, place, and class in America, as much as it is for the movement of time itself
"Donaghy's play explores a family story over the course of thirty years, starting in 1963 Donaghy writes very skillfully and brings to his story considerable poignancy and resonance" ~ NY Post