OVERVIEW

Cousins Sade and Mina used to be inseparable. Now leading very different lives, they return to their childhood town for the funeral of their mother and aunt. While Sade is on a three-day furlough from prison and Mina experiences a brief reprieve from her career and life on the West Coast, the two try to make sense of grief, home, love, and kinship. As the clock ticks down, the cousins grapple with their conflicting memories of the past and their shared hopes for the future. Poetic and theatrical, Furlough’s Paradise explores family dreams of a utopia yet to be realized.

This production is made possible, in part, by support from Cast Iron Entertainment. Geffen Playhouse’s Theater as a Lens for Justice initiative provides access to this production and supplementary programs for populations impacted by incarceration and is supported, in part, by Jayne Baron Sherman. Audience Engagement initiatives for Furlough's Paradise are supported by The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation.

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CONGRATULATIONS, A.K. PAYNE!

On March 10, playwright a.k. payne was awarded the 2025 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for Furlough’s Paradise. The prestigious international award, which has honored women+ playwrights since 1978, was announced at a ceremony at Playwrights Horizons in New York. LEARN MORE (The Guardian)

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