Liberty City
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 4, 2008
Closed Mar 16, 2008

Playing at
New York Theatre Workshop

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

New York Theatre Workshop presents Liberty City, written by Jessica Blank and April Yvette Thompson, performed by Thompson, and directed by Blank.

Liberty City: a place where people of the African Diaspora have settled; where urban and island cultures rub up against each other, and the site of Miami's infamous 1980 riots. Enter April Yvette Thompson -- a child of children of the 60's, the daughter of a Bahamian and Cuban father and an African American mother: free thinkers, movement people, and sometimes just plain poor. As the hope of the 60's and 70's gave way to the disintegration of the 80's, April's family struggled to survive and stay together. Part history, part imagination, Liberty City is her personal story that illuminates the lives of one family through the context of social, cultural, and political events.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

New York Theatre Workshop
79 E 4th St
New York, NY 10003

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

The race riots of 1980 in Miami may be what the majority of the country first thinks about when they hear the words, "Liberty City." However, in April Yvette Thompson's powerful solo piece Liberty City, at New York Theatre Workshop, the performer looks at both the promise the place held for her family, as well as how everything turned so wrong. The work, co-written with director Jessica Blank, uses Thompson's personal experience growing up in that predominantly African-American area of Miami to create a complex portrait of a place and time that cannot be simply reduced to its worst aspects.

Thompson plays a range of people including her younger self, her father Saul, her mother Lily, her A[...]

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Reviewed by Dan Bacalzo on Mar 5, 2008