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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Dodi & Diana

Peter Mark Kendall and Rosaline Elbay in rehearsals for Dodi & Diana.

Oct 1–29, 2022
145 6th Ave, New York, NY 10013

On August 30, 2022, a Wall Street banker and an actress check in at the Ritz Hotel in Paris in a desperate effort to save their marriage. Exactly 25 years earlier, in the same hotel, another couple with too much money and too many paparazzi in hot pursuit checked in: Dodi Fayed and Diana Spencer. Their getaway ended with both of them dead in a car crash. Dodi & Diana, a new play by Kareem Fahmy, follows the banker and the starlet’s attempts to talk through their problems, a process that inevitably digs up secrets, lies, and an unexpected connection to Dodi and Di. Adrienne Campbell-Holt directs. —Jensen Davis

Photo courtesy of Colt Coeur