the ripple, the wave that carried me home tickets

Get the ripple, the wave that carried me home tickets on New York Theatre Guide to see this "poignant, transporting, and quietly subversive" new play, per the Horton Foote Prize for Playwriting. the ripple, the wave that carried me home plays at Playwrights Horizons in Midtown and is written by Tony Award nominee Christina Anderson and directed by Obie Award winner Tiffany Nichole Greene.

In the ripple, the wave that carried me home off Broadway, Janice's parents are 1960s activists fighting for the integration of a Kansas swimming pool. The story also takes place some 30 years later, when Janice must speak at a ceremony honoring her father. Contending with forgiveness, legacy, and how her family's efforts overshadowed her childhood, Anderson's moving portrait is a piercing, theatrically vibrant play about the personal toll of fighting for justice.

"The language is beautiful and kept me up for hours," Forbes wrote of the play, and Playwrights Artistic Director Adam Greenfield echoed in a statement that "the writing is stunning. It moves like the water that’s its subject — an always-moving, circular current that masks enormous depths — and in doing so it becomes a memory play that works just like a memory itself."

Looking back at Black activist history, Anderson noted that "across my most recent plays, I’ve been very interested in exploring the quiet moments that change the tectonic plates within a Black family," she said in a statement. "It is theatrically exciting to me, and those moments definitely exist in this play.”

Also in a statement, Greene said, “Christina and I have also talked about the aggressiveness of water and how to push and see what this play can hold in terms of its rhythm, ferocity, and energy. Though Janice speaks to the audience, my take on it is this is not a journey Janice is guiding us through: we are witnessing her being swept up on this journey beyond her control. Her past is infiltrating her present.. It’s shaking up the safe space and controlled life she’s tried to craft for herself.”

Don't miss the ripple, the wave that carried me home in New York City — tickets are available now.