 Dying City
a drama
by Christopher Shinn
January 8-25, 2008
NSC is proud to produce acclaimed playwright Christopher Shinn for the first time in Cincinnati with his stunning new play Dying City, which recently received raves at London’s Royal Court Theatre and Lincoln Center in New York. When an Iraq war widow is unexpectedly visited by her dead husband’s twin brother, the two are forced to explore the repercussions of their loss, confront the secrets of the past, and admit the truth about the tragic legacy that connects them.
“Anyone who doubts that Mr. Shinn is among the most provocative and probing of American playwrights today need only experience the creepy, sophisticated welding of form and content that is Dying City. Unlike so many contemporary plays Dying City raises obvious, important issues in anything but obvious ways.”
-The New York Times
"The finest new American play I’ve seen in a long while. Dying City is a political play and also a psychodrama about what Arthur Miller called the politics of the soul. It’s about public conscience and private grief, and real and symbolic catastrophes.”
-New York Observer
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