subUrbia
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 28, 2006
Closed Oct 29, 2006
Opened Sep 28, 2006
Closed Oct 29, 2006
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Eric Bogosian's groundbreaking and bitterly funny play subUrbia examines a day in the life of seven rootless young Americans who gather in the parking lot of a Pakistani family's convenience store. The play, which premiered at Lincoln Center Theatre in 1994, will be updated for this production. Jo Bonney directs.
Additonal performance Monday, Sept. 25 at 8pm.
NOTE: All evening performances the week of October 2 will begin at 7:00pm. Matinee curtain times remain the same
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There's a certain amount of irony in staging Eric Bogosian's subUrbia in New York City. The play is set in an unnamed American suburb, and its characters, particularly the wannabe performance artist Sooze (Gaby Hoffman), view New York as if it were the contemporary equivalent of the Moscow to which Chekhov's three sisters long to escape. Like the famed Russian's characters, the young men and women in subUrbia -- first seen at Lincoln Center in 1994, and updated for this mounting -- are stuck. Unable or unwilling to realize their dreams, they hope for an outside intervention that will rescue them from their miserable existence. "All I want to do is make something that shatters the world," say[...]