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Alex Tatarsky: Sad Boys in Harpy Land

  • September 26 - 27, 2025
  • PS21 "Open Air " Pavilion Theater

    2980 New York 66
    Chatham, New York 12037
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Description

“A thrilling and frenetic mental breakdown of a show.” — New York Times

 

Sad Boys in Harpy Land is a clown play about wanting to die. A falling apart coming-of-age tale from playwright and self-proclaimed “experimental clown artist” Alex Tatarsky (“outrageous and profane,” New York Times), the one-person show is a semi-autobiographical tour-de-force that takes place in the hellscape of the mind. 

 

A “blistering, brilliant show, relentless in its invention, humor, and inquiry” (New York Theatre Guide), the piece is 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.

 

Tatarsky ushers audiences through a series of existential vignettes—and through multiple physical locations within the PS21 theater—to examine how depression often masquerades as individual malady, when it might be better thought of as a shared sadness.

 

“Tremendous…superb” — New Yorker (This Year’s Best Theatre, 2023)

Date & Time

Sep 26 - 27, 2025

Venue Details

PS21 "Open Air " Pavilion Theater

2980 New York 66
Chatham, New York 12037 PS21 "Open Air " Pavilion Theater
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