Theatre 167's Jackson Heights Trilogy — collaboratively written by 18 playwrights — featured 37 actors in 93 roles speaking 14 languages ("an epic song of America's most diverse neighborhood"--Theatermania.)
In I Like To Be Here, new faces encounter returning characters and re-imagined scenes from the Trilogy, all the span of one very late night . An elderly Irish woman fights to keep her home. A Bangaladeshi cab driver working the night shift yearns for a woman who rises at dawn to bake bread but does not speak her language. A closeted Long Island cop comes into town for a date, and a dosa chef inadvertently heals a customer's heart. Drag queens, car dispatchers, underslept parents, gamblers, insomniacs, and dreamers find one another on the streets of Jackson Heights.
Part of the 2nd Annual Theater,Village Festival: E Pluribus
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
WED 8 PM
THURS 8 PM
FRI 8 PM
SAT 8 PM
SUN 7 PM
