Destroying David at The Off-Central Players

This one-person play explores why art matters, not just as aesthetic beauty, but as something that helps us process life’s hardest questions. The statue of David becomes a metaphor for fragility, permanence, and what we choose to preserve. An unnamed tour guide leads the audience on what appears to be a private tour of Michelangelo’s David in the Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze. As the guide shares the fascinating history and precarious physical condition of the famous sculpture, the tour quietly gives way to grief, as they confide the death of their son and the story becomes profoundly personal. Directed by Alexa Perez and Starring Debbie Yones.