Fall 2024 Playhouse Production
Everybody
By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Susannah Martin
November 7–10, 2024
Zellerbach Playhouse
Long story short: I’ve been summoned to go on this scary journey at the end of which I have to give a presentation on my life to something or someone who may or may not be 'God.'
A very contemporary and comedic riff on a 15th-century morality play, this 2018 Pulitzer Prize Finalist follows Everybody (chosen at random from the cast for each performance) on a journey to make an accounting of their life. As Everybody searches for someone—or something—to accompany them (A friend? A family member? Their stuff?), they ponder the age-old question: What’s the meaning of life?
Critical Acclaim
“This is theatre rather unlike anything you might have seen… unusual, unconventional and eye-opening… It is not only provocative and involving, it is also funny. Wildly funny, in fact.” — Huffington Post
"With Everybody, Jacobs-Jenkins has written a play about love—or, rather, a play that shows how impossible it is to write about love—and it fills the heart in a new and unexpected way." — New Yorker
"Throughout his meteoric career, Jacobs-Jenkins has made a virtue of his anxieties about identity—social, racial, creative—in meta-theatrical plays that turn traditional forms inside out." — New York Times
