Phillip Howze's FRONTIERES SANS FRONTIERES Extends at The Bushwick Starr

The Bushwick Starr presents the world premiere of Phillip Howze's Frontiéres sans Frontières, a bold and boundless new play about borders, friendships, and the challenges of reinventing oneself in a world that seeks to limit and delineate you. The show, directed by Dustin Wills, has been extended through March 25, 2017.

At the bombed-out corner of a country that feels both foreign and familiar, three orphaned, stateless youth have built a simple life out of recreation and mischief-making. Their way of life is rocked as a parade of immodest strangers slowly invade their homestead offering gifts of knowledge, medicine, art and commerce. As long-held values are upended, and the lure of escape blurs their beliefs, life and landscape mutate into a grotesquery of exploitation that threaten their relationships and humanity.

In a comic spectacle that challenges the pretense of altruism and civilization, Frontiéres sans Frontières asks what happens when generosity looks a lot like self-interest? How to make sense of things when the promise of language matures to the warring of words? What if development equals death?

This world premiere marks the New York playwriting debut for Phillip Howze, a recent graduate of Yale School of Drama. The play is helmed by Dustin Wills, the imaginative director of The Foundry's O, Earth, and the current Page 73/Rattlestick Playwrights production of Orange Julius.

The Bushwick Starr theater is located at 207 Starr Street, Brooklyn, NY [between Irving and Wyckoff]. Via Subway take the L Train to Jefferson Street, exit at Starr Street, walk against traffic on Starr, and the theater is 3/4 of a block on the right. For detailed driving directions, visit www.thebushwickstarr.org/DIRECTIONS. Tickets are $20 at www.thebushwickstarr.org.