WITHOUT CONSENT
by David Robson
In this timely and provocative drama, Carmen, the wife of an entertainment legend, is interviewing a nurse, Lisa, to supervise the care of her husband, who is in the final stages of Alzheimer’s. In the process, the questioner becomes the questioned as Lisa confronts Carmen with sexual assault accusations against her husband and with her complicity in the alleged incidents.
- Cast Size: 2W
- Running Time: 90+ minutes
- Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
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About the Playwright
David Robson is an award-winning playwright whose work for the stage has been hailed as “compelling”, “forceful”, and “gut-wrenching” by the New York Times, and “an important contribution to contemporary theater” by the Philadelphia Inquirer. His plays include WITHOUT CONSENT; BLUES IN MY SOUL: THE LEGEND AND LEGACY OF LONNIE JOHNSON; HAMMER OF GOD; BIRTHRIGHT (PlayPenn semi-finalist); AFTER BIRTH OF A NATION (Best Delaware Playwright Award); PRICELESS; PLAYING THE ASSASSIN (Philadelphia Critics’ Best Play Nomination); PLAYING LENI (co-written with John Stanton); A FEW SMALL REPAIRS; MAN MEASURES MAN (Barrymore Award nomination); and AFTER DENMARK. Work has been produced by TheaterWorks Hartford, Delaware Theatre Company, Penguin Rep, InterAct Theatre Company, Passage Theatre, and Act II Playhouse, among others. Robson was recently named Delaware’s Best Playwright. Other honors include the Hotel Obligado Award for New Work, the Susan McIntyre Playwriting Award, the Panowski Playwriting Award (runner-up), and two playwriting fellowships and three grants from the Delaware Division of the Arts. Play development: Theatre Exile (Philadelphia);Blank Theatre (Los Angeles), Bated Breath Theatre (Hartford, CT), Lark (NYC), White Pines Productions (Philadelphia, PA), City Theater Company (Wilmington, DE), Great Plains Theatre Conference (Omaha, NE), Last Frontier Theatre Conference (Valdez, AK), Rebel Theatre (NYC), and New Theatre (Coral Gables, FL). His plays and monologues are published by Next Stage Press, Smith and Kraus, and Original Works Publishing. David is a member of the Dramatists’ Guild, the Playwrights’ Center, and is a former playwright in residence at the Lark in New York City. He is also the author of more than a dozen books for young adults, including Shakespeare’s Globe Theater, The Murder of Emmett Till, and The Black Arts Movement. He earned an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College, an MS in English Education from St. Joseph’s University, and a BA in Communications from Temple University.
Review Without Consent.