Poor Clare
Published on 24. July 2025
104 pages
978-1-78850-913-8 (ISBN)
Description
'I'm still going to like, do charity, probably even more than I do now.'
Clare has it all. She's a noblewoman living her best life in medieval Italy, trying out hairstyles, and sharing the latest gossip with her sister and maids.
Everything is on track for her to marry some super-rich nobleman and live super-richly ever after. But on the streets of Assisi, she meets Francis, who's sharing some of the wildest ideas Clare has ever heard. And when she listens to what he has to say, her eyes are opened to a whole new way of living.
Chiara Atik's play Poor Clare is a hilarious and off-beat comedy about wealth, sacrifice, and the cost of doing good. Premiered at the Echo Theater Company in Los Angeles in 2020, it won the 2022 American Theatre Critic Association's New Play Award and the LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Play, and was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
It received its European premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre, London, in 2025, directed by Blanche McIntyre and starring Arsema Thomas and Freddy Carter.
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English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
1,76 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78850-913-8 (9781788509138)
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Chiara Atik is an American playwright and screenwriter.
Her play Poor Clare was the recipient of the 2022 American Theatre Critics Association's New Play Award, the LA Drama Critics Circle winner for Best New Play, and a Susan Smith Blackburn Award finalist. Other plays include Five Times in One Night, Bump, and the comedy Women, a modern re-telling of Little Women, which won the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
Author photo by Yuri Hasegawa
