Downtown Race Riot
By Seth Zvi Rosenfeld
Directed by Scott Elliott
December 7, 2017
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Overview
On a hot late summer day in 1976, a mob of young men – all white except one – descended on Washington Square Park with pipes and bats, and attacked any people of color they could find. Seth Zvi Rosenfeld’s Downtown Race Riot takes us back to this day, in the cramped Village apartment of Mary Shannon, a strung-out, free-wheeling single mom, as her son Pnut and his Haitian best friend Massive wrestle with their obligation to join the riot. The boys, torn between loyalty to each other and to the neighborhood, grasp for ways to keep the violence from destroying their friendship forever. A snapshot of a time not so different than today, when a new social freedom ran smack into the forces of reaction, and when the stakes were truly life and death.
Cast
Cristian DeMeo
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David Levi
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Moise Morancy
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Josh Pais
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Sadie Scott
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Chloë Sevigny
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Daniel Sovich
PerformerCreative Team
Seth Zvi Rosenfeld
Playwright
Scott Elliott
DirectorDerek McLane
Scenic DesignClint Ramos
Costume DesignYael Lubetzky
Lighting DesignM.L. Dogg
Sound DesignJudy Henderson, CSA
CastingUnkleDave's Fight House
Fighting DirectionValerie A. Peterson
Production Stage ManagerGroup Sales
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