Ensemble Studio Theatre
549 W 52nd St
212.247.4982
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- When
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Mar 30, 2009 – Apr 19, 2009
Mondays (7pm)
Wednesdays–Fridays (7pm)
Saturdays (2 & 7pm)
Sundays (3pm)
- Where
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- Price
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$30
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Deborah Zoe Laufer's End Days is a comedic and carefully observed portrait of a family that left NYC for the suburbs after 9/11. Sixteen-year-old Rachel Stein is going through a goth phase; her mother has become an evangelical, born-again Christian; and her father, who now lives in his pajamas, spends the day asleep at the kitchen table. Their new neighbor, a teenage Elvis wannabe with Asperger's syndrome, is obsessed with Rachel, and inserts himself fully — albeit awkwardly — into her family. End Days is often hysterically funny, but within Laufer's biting dialogue lies a thoughtful examination of religion, science, and the needs of ordinary people.
