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OVERVIEW

Cousins Sade and Mina used to be inseparable. Now leading very different lives, they return to their childhood town for the funeral of their mother and aunt. While Sade is on a three-day furlough from prison and Mina experiences a brief reprieve from her career and life on the West Coast, the two try to make sense of grief, home, love, and kinship. As the clock ticks down, the cousins grapple with their conflicting memories of the past and their shared hopes for the future. Poetic and theatrical, Furlough’s Paradise explores family dreams of a utopia yet to be realized.

This production is made possible, in part, by support from Cast Iron Entertainment. Geffen Playhouse’s Theater as a Lens for Justice initiative provides access to this production and supplementary programs for populations impacted by incarceration and is supported, in part, by Jayne Baron Sherman. Audience Engagement initiatives for Furlough's Paradise are supported by The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation.

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Performance Information

Running Time
75 minutes, no intermission.
Warnings

Herbal Cigarette Smoke • Strobe Lighting Effects • Loud Music • Theatrical Haze

Content Advisory: This production contains mature content and profanity.

Age Recommendation: 12+
All Geffen Playhouse productions are intended for an adult audience; children under 10 years of age will not be admitted.

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“Furlough's Paradise sets a high bar.”

— Larchmont Buzz

“heart-tugging”

— Curtain Up

“brilliance”

— Indulge Magazine

“hits like a reckoning”

— Stage and Cinema

“radiant and striking”

— Daily Bruin

“the play pierces the heart”

— TheaterMania

“engrossing and passionate”

— LA Theatre Bites

“a keen poetic manifesto”

— Politics Money Culture

“absolutely spectacular”

— WFMU

“explodes with emotion”

— LA Theatrix

“profoundly moving”

— Broadway World

“a remarkable meld of stagecraft”

— Stage Raw

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