About the Show

Four stories of people in the World Trade Center on the night before September 11, 2001.

This new play by Richard Willett, tells the story of the day before the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Directed by Eliza Beckwith, who has worked at Ensemble Studio Theatre and directed the premieres of many of Richard Willett's prior plays. The cast includes Jessie Barnes Jr., Sean Gordon, Royce Thomas Johnson, Kimberly Prentice, Chandini Prakash, Vincent Rame, Alexandra Salter, and Milai Taguchi.

Critic Reviews (2)

“This play visits four tender stories that unfold toward midnight on September 10, 2001 in the towers of the World Trade Center...I am reminded that the tragedy of the following day set our species back decades in our path to enlightenment and I got that longing to go back.”
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9/10 paints a portrait of an imperfect world on the eve of great tragedy (9/11) including many powerful reminders that, although 9/11 shattered American culture, a lot of the bigotry frequently attributed to our post-9/11 world actually existed already. The characters explore the unique challenges of being themselves in a world full of judgment. The outcome is irrelevant, as these characters are not real people, they are archetypes. People just like them survived. People just like them did not.
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