Queensbridge

About

A decades-long resident of the country's largest public housing project describes the trauma of living there, his complicity in it, and his journey to incomplete redemption. Set in the auditorium of the Jacob A. Riis Settlement House, Queensbridge stages an oral history as it happens — an interviewer, a recorder, and a man called Pharaoh, telling the story of a place built to hold people out of sight. It has no acts and no scenes. It has quanta: bursts of dialogue and action that inform each other. And it has no fourth wall — from the first moment, the audience is part of the work. A part of the Dream Up Festival at the Theater for the New City.