Pike St.
Opening Night: November 10, 2015
Closing: December 6, 2015
Theater: Abrons Arts Center Henry Street Settlement
In the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge on the Lower East Side, a struggling family prepares to ride out the next big storm. Unable to move her teenaged daughter Candace, whose mysterious aneurysm has rendered her unable to move or breathe on her own, down five flights of stairs in their crumbling tenement, mother Evelyn plans for more than just survival: as the storm approaches, she fights for healing and redemption.
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November 17, 2015
Evelyn, the principal character in Nilaja Sun’s terrific new solo show, “Pike St.,” had her hands full even before news came of the hurricane bearing down on New York. Her 15-year-old daughter, Candi, is severely disabled and needs constant care. Four years ago, Candi had an aneurysm — or some similar catastrophic brain malfunction — and now she can barely speak and cannot feed herself. She also requires a respirator. It’s that respirator — and a dialysis machine — that’s jangling in Evelyn’s mind when we first meet her, on a phone call with Con Edison, trying to find out whether her building, on the Lower East Side street that gives the play its title, is likely to lose power. Evelyn desperately needs a generator in case it does. Moving with Candi into a shelter, as they did the last time a big storm hit, was traumatic for everyone.
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