TOGETHER
4W, 2M
A new play with songs; music by Heather Christian
Right now, in a New York apartment building, multiple lives are unfolding side-by-side. A couple is seducing each other via emojis from separate rooms, a tour guide is going on a metaphysical journey without leaving her fire escape, a Ukranian refugee is kept company by her dark memories and a Preacher counsels his clients on how to be present. With a non-linear, rhythmic style and songs, Together explores how the hell we can possibly be with each other in the digital age.
Workshopped at Playwrights Horizons, New York and Berkeley Rep, CA.
"Together is a dazzling kaleidoscopic observation of community, not just the collisions and coincidences of urban life, but our more global, existential anxieties about loneliness and connection. It’s a play that’s as deeply in love with cities and it is concerned with the suffering they contain, and a play that, above all, almost in spite of itself, believes in the power of live theater as a gathering place, and even an antidote to alienation."
- Adam Greenfield, Artistic Director, Playwrights Horizons