Our 2025 Script in Hand series continues with Paris
Emmie is one of the only Black people living in Paris, Vermont, and she desperately needs a job. When she is hired at Berry’s, a store off the interstate selling everything from baby carrots to lawnmowers, she begins to understand a new kind of isolation. Paris is a play about invisibility, being underpaid, and how it feels to work on your feet for ten hours a day.
Come see this show on our stage, written by the recipient of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama!
PARIS by Eboni Booth is a powerful, beautifully written play about the deep need to be seen, tackling issues of race, commerce, community, and invisibility in a small town workplace. It’s a remarkable piece of modern American theatre by a brilliant writer, using suspense, humor, and great heart to illuminate the quiet struggles and resilience of characters whose experiences often go unnoticed. And we’re so fortunate to have Anissa Felix joining us as director. Her excellent work as assistant director at the Playhouse has brought so much depth and energy to our stage in the past year. I can't wait to see Anissa and her accomplished cast bring this incredible play to life."
Mark ShanahanCAST
meet the creative team
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
A remarkable new play! Part workplace comedy, part social thriller. Booth’s deft and delicate hand cuts with slow deliberation until it reaches the bone."
Naveen KumarRacism is a stealth force in Eboni Booth’s astute and coolly observant new play. A solid addition to the genre of sociologically detailed working-class American dramas. Simple yet startling."
Ben BrantleyA fierce distillation of life under modern precarity. The chill of this show went so deep... hilarious and dangerous."
Helen ShawA lean and impressive debut... Each character is both sharply written and played. Paris will transport you to a place that comes to feel as intimate and epic as the city with which it shares its name."
Tim TeemanBeguiling!"
Zachary Stewart
articles and interviews
Eboni Booth | Juilliard Playwright - on why she became an actor
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THANK YOU
The 2025 Script in Hand Playreading Series is supported by Joyce Hergenhan and the White Barn program of the Lucille Lortel Foundation.
2025 Programming & Season Sponsorship is generously provided by Barbara Streicker.
All titles, dates, and artists are subject to change.
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directed by Anissa Felix
Recommended for adults, some mature language.
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