Event

Class A by Cameron Moir

CLASS A
Directed by Alyse M. Frosch

Co-Produced by: Gene Frankel Theatre

Wednesday 23rd February to 26th at 8pm
Sunday 27th 3pm
AND
Friday 4th and Saturday 5th of March at 10pm (Late show)
at Theatre 80

80 Saint Marks Place
New York, NY 10003

Class A is a play about four addicts each partnered with their drug of choice personified as a separate character. Jenny a fashion student with a coke addiction. Brad a gay man who's partner in crime is Crytal Meth. Dan the bank man has an alter ego by the name on Heroin and Harry the good boy who loves run with MDMA. Finally we have Dorey, the dealer, pimp and teacher of the class. Dorey takes us through a journey exploring the addicts lives and teaching the audience a good lesson!

This is a class in "Mourning and Melancholia", Freud wrote that the ego incorporates the objects that it mourns in order to preserve them from oblivion, populating itself with their phantoms.

The conversations these drugs present for these four addicts recreate objects in their absence, both affirming and denying their propensity to disappear.

Class A is an inquiry into the public and cultural space through which our notions of good, evil, right, wrong, joy and sorrow circulate. From what depths stem emotions? In what solitude do we look at ourselves in the face?