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Help
Help Tickets

Help Tickets

New York
15 Mar 2022 - 10 Apr 2022
What are white people thinking?

Help Information

The Shed presents the world premiere of Help, a new play by acclaimed author and poet Claudia Rankine, directed by Obie Award winner Taibi Magar. Get Help tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

Help is a play derived from Rankine's deep inquiry and ongoing investigation into white dominance. Help stars April Matthis as the Narrator, a Black woman who recounts Rankine's real-life conversations with white people that take place in transitional spaces like airports. As the stories unfold through monologues and staged scenarios, Help explores how these conversations can go right, wrong, or raise new questions about our fragile democracy.

Rankine's body of work, for which she has been awarded MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, crosses lyric poetry and prose essay to navigate questions of race, healthcare, loneliness, and what it means for a life to matter in American society today.

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Run time

90m (no intermission)

Opening date

March 15th, 2022

Closing date

April 10th, 2022

Categories

Booking until

April 9th, 2022

Previews from

March 15th, 2022

Age

14+

Cast and creative

By: Claudia Rankine Director: Taibi Magar Cast list: April Matthis, Tina Benko, David Beach, Rory Scholl, Jeremy Webb, Nick Wyman, Michael Gorman, Joseph Medeiros