DOWNTOWN URBAN THEATER FESTIVAL was founded in 2001 with the purpose of building a fresh repertoire of stories that echo the true spirit of urban life while speaking to a whole new generation whose lives defy categorizing along conventional lines, the 13th Annual Downtown Urban Theater Festival will present seventeen new stage works by eighteen of America’s finest emerging playwrights, all sharing stories that interpret our history and our times through live performances fusing theatre, dance, music, media and visual arts.

Friday, May 29 at 8:30 PM

Distortive Ascent

By Nikolai Mishler (New York)

“To be a mother is to be possessed by a power beyond wonder. It lives in every mother’s heart. For her child, a mother will suffer any suffering.” – Euripides

To be a son is to be possessed by a power beyond virtue. It is all -eternal.

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