Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Our Lady of 121st Street
Written by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Narrated by Laurence Fishburne and Full Cast
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
A group of old friends find themselves at Harlem’s Ortiz Funeral Home to mourn the death of a beloved nun from their childhood. As they bounce off of each other with old hurts and the harsh realities of grown-up life, a murder mystery (and a few lives) begins to unravel. Hilarious, raunchy, and ultimately very touching, Stephen Adly Guirgis is a new voice to be celebrated.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Laurence Fishburne, Khandi Alexander, Emily Bergl, Tegan West, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Annabelle Gurwitch, Adriana Sevan, Raphael Sbarge and Alan Mandell.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Laurence Fishburne, Khandi Alexander, Emily Bergl, Tegan West, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Annabelle Gurwitch, Adriana Sevan, Raphael Sbarge and Alan Mandell.
Author
Stephen Adly Guirgis
Stephen Adley Guirgis is an actor and playwright. A member of the LABrynth Theater Company and the MCC Playwrights Coalition, Guirgis is the recipient of new play commissions from South Coast Repertory and The Manhattan Theatre Club. He is the author of the plays Our Lady of 121st Street, Jesus Hopped the A Train, In Arabia, We’d All Be Kings, and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, all published by Faber. He lives in New York City.
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Reviews for Our Lady of 121st Street
Rating: 4.357142857142857 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
28 ratings3 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Two great plays, and a pretty good one. All take place in New York City and were originally produced between 1999-2003. Street people, gentrification, drugs, crime, poverty and hard luck figure in all three. Humanity with a large dose of humor.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Is just mind blowing the way this is narrated! Thank you!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A beloved teacher, a nun, has died, leaving the current and former residents of her inner city neighborhood to mourn her passing. The characters are diverse in race, sexuality, and temperament. Life and death offer little closure, yet we must pick up and move on anyway. That seems to be the theme of this funny, dialogue-driven play.
An ensemble piece for twelve actors, each of whom gets some meaty moments.