September 4 – 7
World Preview Performance of an original play—Something Crazy.
No one has ever told a New York COVID lockdown love story this wild, this raw, this unflinchingly bare.
In March 2020, as the world suddenly shut down, Jean—a Broadway music restaurant owner—and Carrot, her unpredictable partner of twenty years, were thrust into absurd and unexpected circumstances—Carrot paying the ultimate price with his sight. This is a darkly comic tragicomedy.
Jean’s daughter Angela, as a second-generation immigrant, cannot fully enter her mother’s culture nor embrace the New York culture in which she was raised—an in-betweenness that ultimately led her to a tragic end.
Jerry, a New York police officer, uses humor and a façade of independence to mask the scars left by a father’s violating “affection” in childhood. He longs for acceptance from both Jean and Carrot, yet must keep himself at a careful emotional distance.
Something Crazy transforms a crisis shared by the entire world into an intensely personal story. Daring to laugh, to cry, and to bare itself without shame, the play presents a collective portrait of how people cling—absurdly, desperately, tenderly—to one another as the world collapses. Each performance concludes with a 30-minute audience conversation, turning the theatre into a living Intersection of art and life, where every audience member can feel that connection in real time.
Ages: 18+ (Adults only)
Runtime: 1 hour and 30 minutes
Content Warnings: mild usage of swearing/coarse language, regularly occurring references and depictions of grief, and mild depictions of use of weapons.