Brooklyn, NY
The Grown-Ups
A new play by Nightdrive. Set around a campfire. Performed outdoors for only six people at a time.
The campers are all finally asleep, and the lake is getting quiet. Have a beer; make a s’more; tell a scary story. Figure out what you’re going to have to do in the morning to keep camp fun and safe without letting the kids find out about...well, you’ve seen the news. I just got a push notification—they’re getting closer. Following a group of camp counselors trying to mold the leaders of tomorrow when tomorrow is looking bleaker and bleaker, The Grown-Ups explores the traditions that change us, what it takes for us to change them, and how to change yourself when you’re hopelessly, tragically not prepared for this. Performed at a secret location in North Brooklyn. July 30th through August 31st. **EXTENDED THROUGH SEPTEMBER 19TH DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND Written by Skylar Fox and Simon Henriques Directed by Skylar Fox Performed by Emily E Garrison, Simon Henriques, Chloe Joy Ivanson, Abby Melick, and Justin Phillips *The team of artists making The Grown-Ups all lived and quarantined together under one roof during this pandemic. We still do, but as the markers of pandemic life disappear, it feels like that means something different. We’re getting used to that. And as we do, we’re making this play. Based on CDC and New York State guidelines at the time of performance, protocols may include (but are not limited to) mask requirements, and vaccination or negative test verification.
Audience Role
Audience seats among the cast and will be handed items.
Ages: 13 +
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About Nightdrive
Nightdrive makes rigorously irreverent, ambitiously vulnerable, borderline-impossible plays that use surprising new ways of telling stories and indelible moments of stagecraft to build thrillingly personal relationships with audiences. Fueled by our hyper-collaborative playmaking process, Nightdrive chauffeurs our audiences and collaborators through the darkness of the world outside, the quiet horror of sharing their own tenderness, and the clandestine rush of taking risks together anyway, practicing the collective compassion and boldness it will take to make a better world together in the morning. We've made a live, immersive alien movie about becoming a better person (ALIEN NATION, The Paradise Factory); created a town in a theater, complete with city council meetings and a community pancake breakfast cooked onstage (PROVIDENCE, RI, The Tank's Flint & Tinder series); and played a fictionally autobiographical rock concert about an artists' residency in a haunted foreclosed house in Detroit (THANK YOU SORRY, Ars Nova). Our show APATHY BOY was an O'Neill finalist, SOCIETY was a semifinalist for the Relentless Award, and we’ve been resident artists at Ars Nova and Pipeline Theatre Company.