subCity

by Bob Jude Ferrante

directed by Kim Doi

with

Marc Baron, Denise Casey, Colleen DeSalvo, Khatun Huber, Peter Mensky, 
Eric Thompson

New York City crumbles away--streets and buildings disintegrate, water mains burst... a subway tunnel gives way and buries two men: Alex, a straight, iconoclastic ex-architect driven to fulfill a mission, and Wall, a gay tunnel-worker comfortable in the dark. As they struggle to survive, which will get them first--falling concrete, oxygen running out, leaking gas... or that fateful past moment they shared? Looping in time, darkly comic, SubCity probes the unlit spaces inside the two men to reveal every crumbling brick.

Bob Jude Ferrante is the award-winning author of Hemlock, a Greek Diner Tragedy, premiered by Extra Virgin Theatre Company to raves from the Dallas Observer.  His plays Hemlock, subCity, twinges from the Fringe and The Buffoon Piece have all been read at the 78th Street Theatre Lab.  A reading of Eve of Crimes (trilogy) is planned for March 2000.  subCity just received a reading at The Dramatists Guild.  Mr. Ferrante serves as Managing Director of New York Play Development, a service organization for playwrights, and is a member of The Dramatists Guild, Inc.