The production at Houston's 4th Wall Theatre Co. features powerful performances and raises thorny questions.
Luis Quintero, Raven Justine Troup in 4th Wall Theatre Co.'s 'Sanctuary City'“Sanctuary City” is not just a place on a map, but a place in your head where you think you have safety—no matter what.
If that sounds stark, it is, and so it makes perfect sense that Jodi Bobrovsky’s set design is minimalist with a brick wall and a simple wooden porch.When: March 23-April 15Philip Lehl’s direction is superb, requiring the actors to mimic sleeping in a bed standing up, an appropriately awkward position for a teenage girl finding sanctuary sleeping with her confidante B as she finds relief from a tumultuous home life.
B has his own issues: impossible work hours to juggle with school, a mother who wants to go back to her country of origin. The original music and sound design of Robert Leslie Meek was a spot-on accompaniment to each moment of the play, especially the early rapid-fire and repeated conversations, which have an amped up and erratic feel that intensifies the pressure of each one.
If you are an immigrant, you really do have iterations of the same scene in your life, until something can shift. You have to, as G does, constantly say “thank you,” until you have something to give.deus ex machina
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