On the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the US, Showtune Productions presents LAST NIGHT IN NEW YORK, a multimedia performance by Wednesday Kennedy that takes us back to the city that never sleeps in the aftermath of 9/11.
Kennedy roams the streets in the weeks after the attacks, capturing a fractured and vulnerable New York, trying to make sense of a dramatically altered landscape. The show moves from New Yorkers' responses to Kennedy's own narrative, presented in vignettes woven throughout the documentary/performance - part poetry, part performance and part journalism, a unique and very personal hybrid from an outsider fused to the city by catastrophe.
In creating Last Night In New York, Ms Kennedy has articulated what most New York performing artists have been unable or unwilling to tackle. It is a subject that Hollywood has almost completely ignored and one that the American theatre community has been slow to respond to. 'As 9/11's original meaning continues to blur, we need more jolts to remind us, not fewer, and more artists to dream them up. But for the moment the creative centre of America is not New York or Los Angeles. It
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