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IN THE WAKE
Directed by Leigh Silverman“LISA KRON'S FORMIDABLE NEW PLAY IS FULL OF SHARP, SMART DIALOGUE, GREAT ACTING AND THE NIMBLE DIRECTION OF LEIGH SILVERMAN. IN THE WAKE’S AMBITION CANNOT BE DENIED.” - MARK KENNEDY, ASSOCIATED PRESS
“MARIN IRELAND IS LUMINOUS.” - BEN BRANTLEY, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“IN THE WAKE IS POWERFUL, ENGROSSING AND VERY FUNNY. MARIN IRELAND IS DIZZYINGLY GOOD.”- JESSE OXFELD, NEW YORK OBSERVER
“AN ASTUTE AND CHALLENGING PLAY THAT SCRUTINIZES AMERICAN HISTORY WITH LASER-BEAM PRECISION.” - DIANE SNYDER, TIME OUT NEW YORK
IN THE WAKE
New York Premiere
By Lisa Kron
Directed by Leigh Silverman
Featuring Jenny Bacon, Michael Chernus,
Miriam F. Glover, Marin Ireland, Deirdre O’Connell,
Susan Pourfar, and Danielle Skraastad
October 19 - November 21
“This is as true on the left as
on the right, we like the idea
of democracy. We love it.
But only in the abstract. None of us is
interested in anything as boring and
unsexy as the realistic maintenance
of it.” -Ellen, In the Wake
It’s Thanksgiving of 2000 and the presidential election still has not
been decided. Ellen insists that her friends and family don’t
understand how bad the situation really is. But no one -- not her
loving partner, Danny, nor the passionate Amy, nor the brutally
pragmatic and world-weary Judy -- can make Ellen see the blind spot at
the center of her own politics and emotional life. A funny, passionate,
and ultimately searing new play that illuminates assumptions that lie
at the heart of the American character - and the blind spots that mask
us from ourselves.