Sanctuary City
Written by Martina Major
Directed by Rebecca Frecknall
New York Theatre Workshop
October 9, 2021
Production website
💉💉💉 out of 5

It was so great to back into the theatre and see a play.  It had been waaaaaay tooo long! Sanctuary Play was the first of the group.  The story was simple – two adolescents, both children of undocumented workers banded together to plot ways to stay in the country.  The girl simply named “G” found a loophole in the system that allowed her to stay if she was willing to stay with her physically abuse succession of her Mother’s boyfriends and take on an excessive amount of college student debt.  The boy, “B” had it tougher.  His mother was planning to give up and just return to her home country.  His options were to continue hiding in the shadows in fear or to find an American girl that he could marry.  I am sure you can guess where we go from there.