The Cheechako Treatment

Plays

Commissioned by America-in-Play (Artistic Director, Lynn Thompson) a new theatre company that encourages playwrights to examine America’s dramatic past as a tool to enrich their current work. The Cheeckako Treatment is a creative response to The Contrast by Royall Tyler (written in 1787) and several skits from late 19^th century minstrel shows.

3 men, ten-minute play

About Deborah Brevoort

Deborah Brevoort is a playwright and musical theatre librettist/lyricist from Alaska who now lives in the New York City area. She is an alumna of New Dramatists. She is best known for The Women of Lockerbie, which won the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays Award and the silver medal in the Onassis International Playwriting Competition. It was produced in London at the Orange Tree, off-Broadway at the New Group and Women’s Project and in Los Angeles at Tim Robbin’s Actors’ Gang. It has been produced all over the US, as well as in Scotland, Japan, Greece, Spain, Belarus,… (read more)