W.O.W.I.E. & CUSP co-present: Alex Tatarsky's "Sad Boys in Harpy Land" 

Sad Boys In Harpy Land is a falling apart coming-of-age tale, a decaying bildungsroman, a semi-autobiographical tour-de-farce that takes place in the hellscape of the mind. 

The show chews itself up and spits itself out, embracing the fragment, the spiral, the unfinished, and the broken bits – moving through inaction born of anxiety, shame, guilt, and overwhelm towards strange & ecstatic modes of re-making the world together. 

The show is also a deranged adaptation of Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Theatrical Mission, a novel about a little boy who wants to be a theater artist but isn’t very good at it.

This narrative collides with other stories of tormented artists during horrific times to examine how depression often masquerades as individual malady when it might be better thought of as a shared sadness. 

Sad Boys is a clown play about wanting to die.

Sad Boys in Harpy Land was workshopped at NYC’s iconic experimental theater La Mama, premiered at the historic Playhouse at Abrons Arts Center, and came back to town for a double-extended sold-out off-Broadway run at Playwrights Horizons.

It was a NYMag recommended pick, featured in NYTimes’ “24 Things That Stuck With Us in 2023,” New Yorker’s “This Year’s Best Theatre” ArtForum “Best of 2024” & David Cote’s “Best Theater of 2023.” 

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