Overview
Mark and Jason were keeping things casual until Jason got pregnant. But however unplanned the pregnancy was, nothing could be less expected than the chain of events it would set in motion. Robert O’Hara’s audacious, hilarious allegory envisions an uncannily familiar future – one long after women have gone extinct from centuries of mistreatment – where man’s capacity to eff everything up soars to new heights.
Casting & Production
Casting
CHARACTER LIST
Actor 1. (20-40’s) JASON
Actor 2. (20-40’s) MARK
Actor 3. (20-40’s) OBGYN, PRISON OBGYN, CO-HOST BOB, FEMINIST 1
Actor 4. (20-40’s) DETECTIVE, CO-HOST BOB, CIVIL WRITER, FEMINIST 2
Actor 5. (50-60’s) WARDEN, MARK’S FATHER, FEMINIST
Actor 6. (50-60’s) NOT MARK’S FATHER, JASON’S FATHER, FEMINIST
Author’s note on casting:
“Although the gender of the characters is defined as Male, I would like to encourage the Casting of Actors of any and all gender identities and those who reject the binary.”
Production Notes
Mankind had its world premiere at Playwrights Horizon, (Adam Greenfield, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director; Carol Fishman, General Manager) in New York, December 2017 on the Mainstage Theatre. The production stage manager was Erin Gioia Albrecht. Featuring: André De Shields, Bobby Moreno, Jason Anson Mount, Mark Stephen Schnetzer, Ariel Shafir, and David Ryan Smith. Mankind is a Playwrights Horizons Commission with the support of the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust.
