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The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar)

Opening Date: Feb 26, 2025

Closing Date: Mar 23, 2025

The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar)
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Playing @

Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Playwrights Horizons

416 West 42nd Street New York City, NY 10036

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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 keep vigil at a cemetery behind the African Baptist Church in Philadelphia to stave off grave robbers from the local medical school. Today, on the same grounds: another mother and daughter work as counselors at what is now a sleep-away camp. Timelines collide and illuminate the repercussions of this country’s defiling of Black bodies.

The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar) is a darkly comic appraisal of our responsibility to time and the role joy plays in our collective resistance, revealing roots to our ancestors that are not as long as we may think.

Director

Evren Odcikin

Written by

Nia Akilah Robinson

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Accessibility:

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

Directions Subway

The closest subway stop is 42nd Street on the A, C, and E trains at Eighth Avenue.1, 2, 3, N, R, Q, W, 7 or S to 42nd St / Times Square

Directions Bus

M42 Crosstown & M104

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.

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Public Transportation

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By Subway:

The closest subway stop is 42nd Street on the A, C, and E trains at Eighth Avenue.1, 2, 3, N, R, Q, W, 7 or S to 42nd St / Times Square

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By Bus:

M42 Crosstown & M104