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Public Obscenities

Opening Date: Jan 17, 2024
Closing Date: Feb 25, 2024
Running Time: 03:05
Public Obscenities

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Playing @
Polonsky Shakespeare Center
262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Public Obscenities explores the pleasures and pitfalls of living in translation as it follows a queer studies PhD student returning to his family home in Kolkata with his Black American boyfriend. This “gorgeously precise” (The New Yorker) bilingual production enjoyed a successful run earlier this year at Soho Rep, where it was named a Critic’s Pick in a New York Times review describing playwright Shayok Misha Chowdhury as “a writer with great promise.” Theatre for a New Audience and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company present Soho Rep and the NAATCO National Partnership Project’s Public Obscenities, written and directed by Chowdhury.

Part of the 2024 Under the Radar Festival.
Off BroadwayPlay - Drama
Show Notes: 1 intermission. Performed in Bangla and English

Performance Schedule

TUESDAY-FRIDAY @ 7:30 PM
SATURDAY & SUNDAY @ 2 PM & 7:30 PM

No 2 PM performance January 20


Written By
  • Shayok Misha Chowdhury

Director
  • Shayok Misha Chowdhury

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Accessibility

  • Assisted Listening System

    Assistive Listening Devices that transmit sound via headsets are available for all performances. For an Assistive Listening Device, please visit the box office before entering the mainstage theatre.
  • Restroom

    Gender diversity is welcome at Theatre for a New Audience. All are welcome to use the restroom that best fits their identity. In addition to men’s and women’s restrooms on the first floor, there is a gender neutral single-stall private restroom on the mezzanine level (third floor).
  • Wheelchair Info

    Access for wheelchair users and individuals with limited mobility is available on all floors of Polonsky Shakespeare Center. For questions about accessible seating, please email tickets@tfana.org or call 212-229-2819 x10

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