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Sam Steiner

Kanye the First (NHB Modern Plays)

Annie's not really a fan of herself. How did she get a life like this? While her perfect sister poses in hipster hats, she has to take care of her sick mother. And she keeps mistaking hot men for her Dad.
There must be more than this. The celebrities that fill her social media feeds are only separated by a screen, but that's as close as she'll ever get to someone like Kanye West. People think he's a God.
But what if everyone thought she was someone else? Someone different. Someone better.
Sam Steiner's Kanye the First is a dazzlingly funny and original drama about identity, guilt, contemporary culture and the second coming of Kanye West.
It was premiered in September 2017 by HighTide Festival.
86 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2017
Publication year
2017
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Quotes

  • b1894443854has quoted4 years ago
    wished he was dead and so I thought – in that moment – that I had… somehow… caused 9/11. That it was my fault the planes had… Just like um… And you were screaming like: ‘he’s in the towers, he’s on fire’ and I was just paralysed with guilt and – and then well…
    You’re not gonna…? Okay.
    The reception guy saw you crying and had a panic that we were too young to know about terrorists and stuff so he took us to the kids’ club booth and put a VHS on – a recording an old episode of that – what’s-his-name’s – interview show?
    EVE. Michael Parkinson.
    ANNIE. Yes!
    MOTHER. Don’t help him.
    EVE. Sorry – got too wrapped up in the story.
    ANNIE. Yeah Parkinson so we sat round watching long-form celebrity interviews in this little kids’ club booth –
  • b1894443854has quoted4 years ago
    wished he was dead and so I thought – in that moment – that I had… somehow… caused 9/11. That it was my fault the planes had… Just like um… And you were screaming like: ‘he’s in the towers, he’s on fire’ and I was just paralysed with guilt and – and then well…
    You’re not gonna…? Okay.
    The reception guy saw you crying and had a panic that we were too young to know about terrorists and stuff so he took us to the kids’ club booth and put a VHS on – a recording an old episode of that – what’s-his-name’s – interview show?
    EVE. Michael Parkinson.
    ANNIE. Yes!
    MOTHER. Don’t help him.
    EVE. Sorry – got too wrapped up in the story.
    ANNIE. Yeah Parkinson so we sat round watching long-form celebrity interviews in this little kids’ club booth –

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