Overview
Provocative, hilarious, and unexpectedly tender, CITYSCRAPE is a new play that dares to ask: does sharing a vibrator collection make you officially co-dependent? Roommates Kitt and Kat are willing to do anything for the sake of their art… even if it means destroying the friendship that keeps them afloat. A love letter to surviving your first year in New York, CITYSCRAPE examines what it means to truly be “seen” by another person—and what happens if the version of ourselves that’s reflected back is an egocentric monster.
Casting & Production
Casting
KAT — twentysomething. an aspiring actress.
KITT — twentysomething. an aspiring novelist.
EILEEN — twentysomething. a second-year law student.
Setting
PLACE
the rooftop and interior of a two-bedroom apartment.
also, the street outside an East Village theater.
TIME
now-ish. October through May.
Reviews
“McIntosh’s wordplay balances exposition and observation with ease: one feels so very welcomed into this space, able to bare their heart alongside these young women. Kitt and Kat are two louder-than-life characters commanding intimacy; it’s this very juxtaposition that gives them power. Brecht meets Sir Chloe. Shakespeare meets Sweater Weather.”
—The Theatre Times
“CITYSCRAPE dramatizes the difficulties of scraping by as an emerging artist at the same time as it casts a canny but empathetic eye on how friends grow apart and together; how intense, complex, and ambiguous those bonds can be; and how much that complexity can find itself heightened when artistic expression gets involved.”
—Thinking Theater NYC
