Cost of Living

Presented by SpeakEasy Stage Company at Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA, Roberts Studio Theatre, Boston MA

Mar 08 - 30 2024

In this wry and quietly observed play, Polish-born playwright Martyna Majok interweaves the stories of four lonely souls to examine the forces that bring people together and the ways we all need each other.

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Winner! 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama! Eddie, an unemployed truck driver, and his estranged ex-wife, Ani, find themselves unexpectedly reunited after she suffers a devastating accident. And John, a brilliant PhD student with cerebral palsy, hires Jess, a first-generation Princeton graduate who has fallen on desperate times, as his new aide. Together these powerful stories comment on the complexity of caring and being cared for, and “the various tenderness’s of simply being human.” (The ... view more »