Event

Zurich, New York

"Zurich, New York" produced by Essential Theatre Group is a cycle of three new plays by three playwrights: "Repast" by Lindsay Joy, "Rocks" by Charlotte Miller and "When You Go" by Alex Riad. Each play takes place on the same day on a dock in Zurich: a fictional town on a lake in upstate New York.

In "Repast", Celia and Frank have come back home for their father's funeral. They're not the same people that grew up here. "Rocks" introduces two members of the notably strange Emmons clan: Emmet and Emmi. They're opening a souvenir rock shop on the banks of the lake, desperately trying to escape their limbo of existence.

"When You Go" ends the day when Josh, Mike, Becca and Clark get together for one more night before one of them leaves Zurich for New York City. A casual night becomes a hotbed for expressing what's really happening below the surface.

"Zurich, New York" is about the truth of other people. As individuals, it's easy to mask our own reality and push through until it changes. In Zurich, you're forced to expose those truths and accept them for what they are, or who they make you. Life is cyclical. What will you do to change it?