Non-Sequitur (Litmus Press 2015)
Winner of the 2014 Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women’s Performance Writing
Performed by The Relationship Theater Company at Theaterlab, NYC, December 10-20, 2015. Directed by Fiona Templeton
Non-Sequitur is a high theatrical challenge— its dozens of characters have voices on multiple registers: the voices in our heads, under our breaths, on our voicemail, hard to have to listen to, hilarious voices... This is our own experience and others’ in bed together, our conscious and unconscious lives... Her deftness of touch is masterful. In each line the actor must live a life.
— Fiona Templeton, Director
“In this brief (as in a legal summation) Khadijah Queen revives the political absurdist experimentalism of Adrienne Kennedy, pushing drama to the limits of genre. Objects, ideas, and human body parts are driven to the same ontological plane, precisely the post-human condition in which we find ourselves: teetering at the boundaries of epistemology. Non-Sequitur is conceptual writing with concentrated vengeance; it bristles, trembling with a rage barely contained by Queen’s laconic rhetoric and pin-point intelligence.” — Tyrone Williams
“Prodigiously populated theater energized by a rotating cast of intense who dis, who dat and whosoevers: 40% Discount, Morning Stubble, Habitual Justifier, the Charlie Horse Optimist, among others, who if we don’t know by name we know by their catastrophes and desperate hopes. Comedy and calamity spin briskly in the mix, trading lines in duets, trios and quartets. Attention, attention. This is the back of your mind, emerging full blown from a swallowed dream.” — Erica Hunt