Current Season

September 2-28

King of Shadows

by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
directed by Connie Grappo

at Theater for the New City

155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Streets)

with Satya Bhabha, Kat Foster, Sarah Lord and Richard Short

set design: Wilson Chin                     lighting design: Jack Mehler

costume design: Emily Pepper        sound design: M.L. Dogg

King of Shadows is a world premiere by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Good Boys and True- Second Stage; Based on a Totally True Story- Manhattan Theatre Club; Dark Matters- Rattlestick). When Jessica interviews homeless teens living on the streets for her Masters thesis in social work, she meets Nihar, a 15-year-old runaway who claims he was stolen from his mother in India 500 years ago and held captive by an evil King and Queen of the Underworld.  Over the objections of her police officer boyfriend, Jessica agrees to take Nihar into her home, where he forms a powerful bond with her teenage sister.  The famous fog of San Francisco mixes with a fog of fantasy and fear as the adults try to protect against a danger they don’t understand.  Who to trust?  What to believe?  Where are the boundaries?  These remain unsolvable mysteries for two public servants and our society’s most vulnerable.

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April 4 - 20, 2008

Our Dad is in Atlantis

by Javier Malpica
translation by Jorge Cortinas
directed by Debbie Saivetz

Cast: Sergio Ferreira, Steven D. Garcia

Set Mikiko Suzuki-MacAdams, Lights Jack Mehler
Costumes Jessica Gaffney, Sound Bray Poor

The Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street
45 Bleecker St. (@Lafayette St.)  New York, NY 10012

Our Dad is in Atlantis is a funny, tender story of two young brothers left in Mexico by their widowed father who’s gone to the U.S. to find work. In the care of relatives they barely know, the boys are forced to rely on each other for the emotional and physical support that, as children, they are wholly unequipped to provide. Their journey of premature independence leads them to a naïve attempt to navigate the impassable distance between them and the father who seems to have abandoned them. Written by Mexican Playwright Javier Malpica and translated into English by New York-based playwright Jorge Cortinas, this is a co-production with Queens Theatre in the Park.

This co-production was made possible with support from the David Schwartz Foundation.

This translation was commissioned and originally developed at the Lark Play Development Center, New York City as part of the U.S. – Mexico Exchange Program.

Special thanks to the Greenwall Foundation for supporting the development of Our Dad is in Atlantis.