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Members say: Clear-eyed, Brave, Resonant, Relevant, Ambitious

For their fifth season, Brunch Theater is asking the question, how do millennials confront the end of the world? Think Black Mirror meets Brunch. 7 short plays, 18 actors, and brunch to brace the end of the world. More…

The world is ending, and Brunch Theatre has taken refuge in an abandoned art store in Manhattan's East Village. Brunch Theatre has partnered with NYC food trucks to provide rations (vegan and gluten free options available) and will keep the champagne flowing because the waters run out.

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Ambitious, Resonant, Relevant, Clear-eyed, Brave

May 19th, 2018

See it if you're interested in how 8 millennial playwrights (& their millennial casts & creative teams) look their doomed future straight in the eye.

Don't see it if you can't believe in climate change (& the eco-disaster it will wreak), even for 2 hours.

Also Not much of what I've seen in NYC's prestigious theaters this year has impressed me as much as "Black Coffee," a bill of 8 short plays by millennial playwrights that looks the end of the world straight in the eye. (Casts & creative teams are millennials too; Brunch Theatre’s aim is giving millennials a voice in the theater.) What a shame that, by the end of the run, only a few hundred people will have seen this smart, funny, bracing, often touching bunch of short plays, performed on the 2nd floor of the defunct NY Central Art Supply store. In play after play eco-disaster & our total dependence on more & more complex technologies do us in. The little human body never seems more important than when people are facing extinction. That’s what makes this kind of shoestring theater, without the special effects of film, TV or Broadway available, the best place for exploring the crises to come. Hats off to Brunch Theatre for exploiting its oh-so-human resources to the max.... Read more Read less

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