Before Your Very Eyes, a new play by Edward Elefterion will have it’s first public reading at New York Theatre Workshop this Thursday, January 28th, at 7pm.
This reading is free and wine will be served afterward to accompany our post-show discussion.
Address: 83 East 4th Street. Buzzer “3rd Floor Rehearsal Hall”
Part mystery, part thriller, and set in the landscape of 9/11, Before Your Very Eyes is about how denial can so easily replace the unbearable truth, and how desire and need create belief in unbelievable circumstances. It’s about how memories and secrets can behave like infections. It’s about the cost of safety…and the cost of belief. It’s about what it means to be “foreign”. Can your husband be foreign to you? Can you be a foreigner to yourself?
John returns home covered in ash, talking about bombs in his building. Erik never returns home, but his final voicemail, left from high in a tower, traps his wife Evonne perpetually in those final moments with him.
Days later, Amir is assaulted with a beer bottle and meets Lakshmi, a emergency-room nurse who’s seen and personally experienced the effects of looking Middle Eastern in a world of anti-Arab patriotism. Together, they discover a terrible secret and are faced with a decision: release their findings and risk their lives, or forget what they’ve learned, burying their beliefs forever so that they can stay safe and alive.
We certainly hope you’ll join us at NYTW on Thursday night at 7pm. You’re input will help us to shape this new and provocative play.
