Transfers
Opening Night: April 23, 2018
Closing: May 13, 2018
Theater: Lucille Lortel Theatre
Cristofer and Clarence are two gifted students from the South Bronx. After two years at a local community college being coached by faculty members, the young men are competing for a life-changing scholarship at an elite northeast university. During a campus visit, the young men are unexpectedly confronted with their shared past while trying to break through a system that seems designed to keep them on the outside.
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April 23, 2018
Their lives, the young men insist, should not be reduced to stories, to the sort of sentimental or sensational anecdotes that might captivate a college admissions office. The anxious heroes of Lucy Thurber’s “Transfers” are boys from the Bronx who find themselves amid the manicured groves of a New England campus, and they understandably bristle at the prospect of being packaged and sold as novelties in an ivory-tower world.
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