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In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot
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Description
“Everyone's looking for someone. I was looking for you.”
As coastlines disappear and lives are uprooted, a community of warehouse workers travels from one temporary home to the next. Among loading docks and parking lots, they search for missing loved ones-and for meaning.
Both intimate and rebellious, In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot is a striking new play about connection, survival, and finding love where you least expect it.
Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn prize 2023, Sarah Mantell's compelling dystopian and highly theatricalized world features a flexible cast of 7 female, nonbinary, and trans actors.
Originally produced at Playwrights Horizons in New York City, this is the first publication of this celebrated contemporary play.
Product details
| Published | 26 Nov 2026 |
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| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 96 |
| ISBN | 9781350675674 |
| Imprint | Methuen Drama |
| Series | Modern Plays |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Startling in its perceptiveness, disheartening in its accuracy and, against all odds, rousingly optimistic in its final moments.
Juan A. Ramirez, Theatrely
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Affirms the power of love to sustain people in even the worst times imaginable.
Michael Sommers, New York Stage Review
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In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot brilliantly mirrors our present day fears of approaching apocalypses. The play gives us an ensemble of “outcasts”-by virtue of their sexuality, age, and embrace of collaboration-the very skills of survival during and after the apocalypse. There is a tenderness that cannot be erased by authoritarianism, and values of collectivity, sharing, and care are carried from place to place: there is hope In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot, and for a brief time, there is home.
A remarkable, empathic play.Paula Vogel
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Sometimes a play has the power to blast apart the illogical constructs of society and show us what really counts. In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot is a rallying cry for togetherness, a primer for how to live in a dying world.
Jaclyn Backhaus
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You would think that in this day and age, stories about people, really about people, and their stories shouldn't be so radical! And yet Sarah takes us through an act of deliberate imagination In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot to get us to see what's right in front of our faces: One another and Love. Who knew? Sarah knew. Rad!
Raja Feather Kelly (author of The Fires and Artistic Director of The Feath3r Theory)
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The coasts are coming together, and the world is falling apart. Keeping the world together are these seven workers in an Amazon warehouse parking lot. This is a formally inventive, thrilling and utterly contemporary play from one of my favorite writers, who finds spiritual meaning in the most unlikely of places.
Sarah Ruhl (Pulitzer Prize finalist author of In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play))

























