Where revolution meets heartbreak & love becomes the last protest...
Where revolution meets heartbreak & love becomes the last protest...
“...By intermission, I was honestly concerned for the mental and emotional well being of the actors and hoping the cast has effective ways to separate themselves from their characters...This intense play is both a plea for empathy and understanding, as well as a call to action. ”
A Tragedy For Our Times:
Developed during a fellowship with the Action Lab in spring of 2025, This new original play MY DYING CITY VOL. II follows a Left Wing radical activist couple, once radio hosts of ‘The Social Justice Suicide Hour’, who now grapple with political & personal disillusionment after the one year anniversary of their son’s suicide. During one tumultuous night, as Fascism takes rise in the United States of America, buried secrets surface, changing their lives forever.
Following in the tradition of Odets, Miller, Hansberry, Albee, Baraka, and Kushner this new play illuminates James Baldwin’s declaration that to be conscious is to be in a constant of rage.
“A radical version of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as if told by Chekhov and Frantz Fanon.”
[All photos by Tessa Blythe Young & Lambert Lau, 2026]