Yellow Flesh Alabaster Rose

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Erik Patterson's strange new play is one that takes you by surprise and ravishes you.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-Rob Kendt <em>Backstage West</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Elliot is lost in a world of sex workers-late night house calls from hustlers and phone calls with call girls. Becky is torn between two worlds-her day job as a stripper and being a mom to fifteen-year-old Rose (a Goth girl who wants nothing to do with her). And then there's Little B who has stripped away every piece of herself until all she has left is her obsession with Icelandic pop singer Bjork. This troubled family's shared past holds unspeakable horrors and they must join forces if they ever want to heal.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>WINNER</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Backstage West Garland Award Best Playwriting</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>FINALIST</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> PEN USA Literary Award</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Play Details</strong></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Yellow Flesh / Alabaster Rose</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is a full-length play in five acts with one intermission.</span></p><p><br></p><p>Cast: 5 female 4 male</p><p>Genre: dark comedy</p><p>Keywords: family Bjork LGBTQ abuse love sex work siblings trauma healing</p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Character Breakdown</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>ELLIOT a man in his early thirties. Sometimes known as Tom.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>LITTLE B his sister fifteen.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>BECKY a woman in her thirties. Sometimes known as Hunter.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>ROSE her daughter fifteen.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>MOM a mother in her fifties. Named Rose Silverstein.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>JUSTIN a hustler in his late twenties to thirties.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>BROOKE/KRISTEN a phone-sex operator in her twenties to thirties.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>MIKE a hustler in his fifties.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>DR. MARTIN PERKINS DR. ALBERT ELLIS DR. STEARN a professor a psychologist and an ER doctor (all played by the same actor)</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>FATHER a voice/memory (played by the same actor who plays Mike).</span></p>