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The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar)
Opening Date: Feb 26, 2025
Closing Date: Mar 27, 2025
Playing @
Playwrights Horizons
416 West 42nd Street, New York City, NY 10036
You think, we carry our ancestors with us?
No. I do think there are hints they leave for us though. In our walk. Or maybe I don’t know. In the soil. I don’t know.
1832: a mother and daughter stand vigil behind the African Baptist Church in Philadelphia at the grave of a recently deceased loved one. Today, on the same grounds: another strangely familiar mother and daughter work as counselors at what is now a sleepaway camp. Timelines collide, horrors are buried and revealed, but love never lacks.
The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar) is a darkly comic play about our nation’s long practice of harming Black bodies in the name of scientific progress, our responsibility to time and the role joy plays in living with a history we cannot change.
Presented by Soho Rep.
No. I do think there are hints they leave for us though. In our walk. Or maybe I don’t know. In the soil. I don’t know.
1832: a mother and daughter stand vigil behind the African Baptist Church in Philadelphia at the grave of a recently deceased loved one. Today, on the same grounds: another strangely familiar mother and daughter work as counselors at what is now a sleepaway camp. Timelines collide, horrors are buried and revealed, but love never lacks.
The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar) is a darkly comic play about our nation’s long practice of harming Black bodies in the name of scientific progress, our responsibility to time and the role joy plays in living with a history we cannot change.
Presented by Soho Rep.
Performance Schedule
TUESDAY-FRIDAY & SUNDAY @ 7 PM
SATURDAY @ 3 PM & 8 PM
Cast
- Crystal Lucas-Perry
- Clarissa Vickerie
- Holiday
- Miles G. Jackson
Written By
- Nia Akilah Robinson
Director
- Evren Odcikin
TDF Tickets Offers:
TDF Member tickets:
Not currently available for this show
Listed at 
Never
Full-price tickets:
$35.00 - $45.00
Accessibility
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Wheelchair Info
Peter Jay Sharp Theater is fully wheelchair-accessible, offering accessible seats at each performance. Wheelchair seating available in Row F -
Entrance
From entrance corridor, take elevator to Floor 4 for wheelchair access to the Peter Jay Sharp theater and lobby. Two single doors in series to enter the theater. -
Box Office
Located in corridor on Floor 1 (ground level). -
Restroom
For shows in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, the restrooms and water fountain are on 3M (accessible by elevator).Grab bars. -
Water Fountain
Floor 3M. Concessions on lobby level -
Assisted Listening System
Radio Frequency assistive listening systems are available at no charge at every performance and can be checked out from the concessions counter. These devices are available in both our Mainstage and Peter Jay Sharp Theaters for every performance, per ADA requirements and are compatible with t-coil enabled hearing aids and implants. -
Folding Armrests
No mobility seats with folding armrests. -
Parking
Manhattan Parking - 475 West 41 Street -
Telephone
None on premises -
Visual Assistance
Scheduled audio-described performers. Hand held captions available with GalaPro app on mobile devices. Listening devices and tablets are available in both theaters at the concession stand, free of charge. A photo ID is required.







