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
The Arts Intel Report
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
You Will Get Sick
When
Oct 14 – Dec 11, 2022