About the Show

Set in the Lower East Side in the 1990s and early 2000s, this new work is loosely based on real experiences and follows the structure of Homer's "The Odyssey."

From the show:

"The Sickness" follows the idea of The Odyssey, only aboard a Ship of Fools, without beginning or goal, going nowhere, lost in mad pursuit of an Ithaca that cannot be found, sailing only for the incontinence and lunacy that waits at the frontiers of the “visceral rush of oblivion.”

Critic Reviews (1)

"As a piece of literature, 'The Sickness' has promise but as a play it is brutal to sit through. When X and Y finally overdose, everyone gets to go home, perhaps a little more grateful for their own good fortune but no less judgmental of drug addicts than they might have been upon arrival."
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