Light Raise the Roof
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 20, 2004
Closed Jun 6, 2004
Opened May 20, 2004
Closed Jun 6, 2004
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Running Time:
2hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
New York Theatre Workshop presents Light Raise the Roof, the world premiere of a play by Kia Corthron, directed by Michael John Garces.
Through an energetic man named Cole and his battle to provide homes for those surviving a freezing winter on the streets, playwright Corthron humanizes the pervasive and multifaceted social problem of homelessness. As Cole struggles against everything from police raids on homesteaders' settlements to the allure of substance abuse in order to fulfill his promise of shelter for his dispossessed friends Zekie, Bebbie, Arnell, Em, and Mai, Corthron goes beyond abstract numbers and trends, straight into the realm of human tragedy.
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Kia Corthron's Breath, Boom and Force Continuum deal in gritty realism but with Light Raise the Roof, her play about the homeless, the playwright has gone mythic. A man called Cole (Chris McKinney), an architect for people who have no fixed address, wanders through an episodic idyll in a manner not unlike Virgil guiding Dante through the nine rings of hell. Or maybe it's just as accurate to say Corthron has crossed Homer with Brecht in order to make a concerned statement about the injustices of housing and welfare in contemporary New York City. It's a concept, all right, but is it ultimately a fruitful one?
At first, it seems that the idea is going to be effective. Cole, throwing in some re[...]