To The Playground

An afternoon passes, a week, a summer. The days are long and the weather is hot. The world may be falling apart, but first there's potty training. To The Playground is an ode to playgrounds and playground parents - a journey into the beauty, banality and anxieties of the longest shortest time.

Andy Bragen says, 'To The Playground is inspired by the many hours I spent with my now 12-year-old daughter at Tompkins Square Park. The play draws on voices and memories, on conversations, on fantasies, and nightmares, and boredom. It explores the lives of parents on the playground: their joys and obsessions, and their anxieties, both banal and existential, including climate anxiety - fears for our city, country and planet. Like so much of my work, this play is set in the East Village where I grew up and still live, and I am delighted that it is coming to life at La MaMa where I've been seeing plays since I was a kid.'