Everybody

By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

The story is kept largely the same as Everyman with a few exceptions. Fellowship, Kindred, Goods, Discretion, Five Wits, and Knowledge are renamed Friendship, Kinship, Stuff, Mind, Five Senses, and Understanding respectively. The scene where Everyman must whip himself for Confession is changed to a scene where they are instructed by the drill seargant-esque Love to strip naked and shout about existential dread. Instead of Good Deeds following Everyman/Everybody to the grave, in this play that role is filled by Love. The story is also interspersed with pre-recorded voiceover scenes done fully in the dark, depicting four of Everybody's friends comforting them at their deathbed and through a misunderstanding eventually turns into a discussion on racism.

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Production and Publication

First produced

2017, Signature Theatre, NYC

Publication year

2021

Published by

Theatre Communications Group

ISBN

9781559369701

Its connection to a piece often studied as part of theatre history gives is many possible tie-ins with other courses which may be happening at the school.

Its connection to a piece often studied as part of theatre history gives is many possible tie-ins with other courses which may be happening at the school.

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