Furlough’s Paradise

by a.k. payne
Directed by Ericka Ratcliff
Associate Director: TBA
Stage Manager: TBA

May 11, 2026

Furlough’s Paradise runs 90 minutes with no intermission.

Cousins Sade and Mina used to be inseparable. Now leading very different lives, they return to their childhood town for the funeral of their mother and aunt. While Sade is on a three-day furlough from prison and Mina experiences a brief reprieve from her career and life on the West Coast, the two try to make sense of grief, home, love and kinship. As the clock ticks down, the cousins grapple with their conflicting memories of the past and their shared hopes for the future. Poetic and theatrical, Furlough’s Paradise explores family dreams of a utopia yet to be realized.