A Promising Debut From Eboni Booth
Critically acclaimed actress and Playwriting Fellow at the Juilliard School Eboni Booth marks her playwriting debut at the Atlantic Theater this winter. Her first ever play Paris is attracting much buzz thanks to her past performances at venerated New York venues including Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theater Club, Page 73 and Soho Rep. as As a new voice emerges, don't miss the chance to see the birth of what is sure to be a promising and important career!
Booth explores the themes of racial inequality, invisibility, poverty and unfair working conditions throughout the story of one of the only African Americans living in the picturesque climes of Paris, Vermont. The story's protagonist is Emmie, who jumps at the chance to work at an isolated story off the interstate, but as loneliness overshadows her pitiful pay checks, she finds herself in the grip of a different type of isolation all together...