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The Arts Intel Report

You Will Get Sick

Oct 14 – Dec 11, 2022
231 West 39th Street, Suite 1200. New York, NY 10018

The title of Noah Diaz’s play You Will Get Sick embraces the inevitable decay of one’s health, but the play’s protagonist, Parker, does not. Although he is ill—at first he’s just off-balance, then his limbs grow numb, eventually he has an incurable respiratory disease—Parker cannot admit it to himself or his family. Instead he hires a stranger, Callan, to tell him what he already knows: he’s sick. Largely ignored by a fractured health-care system, Parker relies on Callan, an aspiring actress, to help him navigate the world. The show has a dystopian twist: it’s set in a time before cell phones and is narrated in the second-person. Sam Pinkleton directs. —Jensen Davis