A new play uses the hard-to-access Hart Island, where New York City residents have been buried for more than a century if they couldn't afford a burial or if their body went unclaimed, to meditate mourning.
is currently presenting at The Gym at Judson, meditates on the island's role, and New Yorkers' relationships with it.
As the lights drop, eerily clanging music plays and projections cover the theater’s back wall, it becomes clear the tower is actually a recording studio. The Narrator, a blonde woman played byplaywright, Tracy Weller, enters hurriedly and sprays the door handle with disinfectant before removing her mask, apologizing profusely to an invisible person on the other side of the soundproof booth for being late, for being so cautious.
“I spend a lot of time worrying about stories that are endangered and have the potential to just sort of slip into oblivion," Weller said in an interview with Gothamist. "Hart Island is definitely one of those places that sort of embodies just that. The things that we don't want to see, we put on those islands. And it just sort of raises this bigger question about what do we do with what we don't want to deal with as human beings.
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