King of Shadows
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 7, 2008
Closed Sep 28, 2008
Opened Sep 7, 2008
Closed Sep 28, 2008
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Working Theater presents the world premiere of King of Shadows, by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, directed by Connie Grappo.
The play centers around Nihar, a 15-year-old homeless runaway selling sex to survive, who claims he's being pursued by supernatural demons. When Jessica, a young social worker, takes him in, he forms a dangerous bond with her teenage sister that threatens everything she values. The famous fog of San Francisco mixes with a fog of fantasy and fear as each try to protect against a danger they don't understand.
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Theater for the New City
155 1st Ave
New York, NY 10003
Theatre for the New City is an integral East Village arts complex. Comprised of four spaces, ranging in size from 74 to 240, the company continually churns out experimental and innovative productions. TNC is a Pulitzer Prize-winning center dedicate [...] Read More
155 1st Ave
New York, NY 10003
Theatre for the New City is an integral East Village arts complex. Comprised of four spaces, ranging in size from 74 to 240, the company continually churns out experimental and innovative productions. TNC is a Pulitzer Prize-winning center dedicate [...] Read More
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Everyone looks down on graduate students. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's creepy-cool new play,
King of Shadows at Theatre for the New City, captures this simple hierarchy when Nihar (Satya Bhabha), a runaway kid, sneers at do-gooder Jess' (Kat Foster) admission that she's a, gulp, grad student. Doing good is often something a grad student does to feel better -- or to complete her dissertation. For Jess, it's both, as she traverses the Bay Area, seeking homeless LGBT youth to interview and aid. This is how she comes across Nihar, a charmingly prescient wastrel with a vocabulary that would be at home in one of her classes. Or a graphic novel.
Despite the clunky conventionality that creeps in to [...]