Geography: Americas > Northern America > United States of America
Year: 2021
Produced by: New York Theatre Workshop; presented by special arrangement with the Lucille Lortel Theatre Foundation
Creative Team: Written by Martyna Majok; directed by Rebecca Frecknall
Synopsis: Sanctuary City follows B and G, two young undocumented immigrants growing up in the United States before DACA. Dependent on each other’s friendship, they begin to imagine their futures under the new immigration law. The play’s fragmented structure, repeated exchanges and intimate staging show how state power enters private relationships and everyday speech. It shows the complexities of undocumented childhood arrival and naturalisation. The production prompts the audience to consider the relationship between migrants and the nation-state, but also between different degrees of legal vulnerability within migrant communities. The play asks what belonging means when citizenship is unevenly distributed and when love, protection and sacrifice become entangled with legal status.
Source: New York Theatre Workshop, Production Listing for Sanctuary City: https://www.nytw.org/show/sanctuary-city/ New York Theatre Workshop, 2021/22 Season: https://www.nytw.org/2021-22-season/ Theatrical Rights Worldwide, Entry for Sanctuary City: https://www.theatricalrights.com/show/sanctuary-city/ New Yorker Article on Sanctuary City by Vinson Cunningham: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/11/the-precious-contingencies-of-immigrants-in-sanctuar y-city Why See Art, Review of Sanctuary City by Chuck Schultz https://whyseeart.com/theater-review-new-york-theater-workshop/ CENTRAL AMERICA – NA SOUTH AMERICA – NA