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

Patience

Aug 2–28, 2022
2162 Broadway at 76th Street, New York, NY 10024

Daniel, a professional solitaire player, is ready to retire from his lucrative career and settle into domestic life with his fiancé, Jordan. The timing is right: he can feel that his status as the best player in the world is slipping. But one final game is too tempting to resist. Patience, Johnny Lloyd’s newest play, stages the card game with the intensity of a sports game. In fact, since competitive solitaire isn’t real, Lloyd took inspiration from games like tennis. “Writing this play,” Lloyd has said, “came from a place of wanting to explore why I know so many truly excellent people of color who seemed to be completely stymied but what to actually do with their lives.” The show premiered in 2019 at the Corkscrew Theater Festival, and comes to Second Stage Theater for its first run in New York City. —Jensen Davis