The Seven Year Disappear
by Jordan Seavey
Directed by Scott Elliott
The New Group
February 8, 2024
Production website
💉💉 out of 5.

The Seven Year Disappear presents a performance art piece about a performance artist working to create a performance art piece about her relationship with she and her son.  Cynthia Nixon, in the lead roll unexpectedly disappears at the very moment she is to have commission given to her by the Museum of Modern Art.  The disappearance is for seven long years and leaves even her son puzzled as to its meaning.  In his mother’s absence, he feels her presence in all of his/her friends, coworkers, strangers – and even the guy he is flirting with in a dark bar..  Suddenly she pops up and expects the son to join her in being a part of her next piece as if she never left.  Obviously, the son has a LOT of questions and a LOT of issues to solve with his mother. The play seems to want to explore motherhood, self-discovery, and the skeletons we keep in family closets.