RED FERN THEATRE COMPANY
Proudly Presents 

GENTRIFUSION
An installation on
New York’s dynamic cultural shifts

LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
JANUARY 27 – FEBRUARY 13, 2011
THE LABA THEATRE AT THE 14TH STREET Y

In GENTRIFUSION, playwrights Carla Ching, Joshua Conkel , Michael John Garcés, Jon Kern, Janine Nabers and Crystal Skillman, explore the different truths surrounding the gentrification of New York’s neighborhoods. The playwrights were charged with breaking down the cliched idea of “gentrification”. 

Their pieces dig deeper to address the ways that change both improves and diminishes a community.  All residents are given voice in this series, ultimately discovering that both long time residents and the new crop of gentrifiers benefit and suffer in different measures and different ways.

Joshua Conkel’s short play is ,
Robert Mapplethorpe
Doesn’t Live Here Anymore


Is the “gay ghetto” dead? Some queens just can’t agree on anything.

According to Josh, “My piece is about a war of words between a trans street person and a well-to-do gay man whose just adopted a baby. It’s about assimilation vs identity within the gay community and the death of “gay ghettos” due to gentrification.”

Tickets are $25 and are now available online at Theater Mania  or by calling 866.811.4111. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the theater box office ½ hour prior to the performance.

 LABA Theatre at the 14th Street Y
 344 East 14th Street between First and Second Avenues
 4/5/6/N/R/Q to Union Square; L to First Avenue

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