Stephen Karam’s 2016 Tony-winning play The Humans has been hailed by critics for holding a great mirror to New York City’s hard-scrabble inhabitants in the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Sandy. H…
follows Erik Blake , who has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter Brigid’s apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group’s deepest fears are laid bare. Houdyshell, who played Erik’s wife Deidre onstage, reprises her Tony-winning role here, with Steven Yeun playing Richard, Brigid’s boyfriend, and Schumer as Brigid’s lawyer-on-the-rocks sister Aimee.
“People know what it means to be in an enclosed space with their families,” explained Karam about how continues to speak in a Covid-era world with “a story that is so much about the fears of a family, the way they are loved, and how their anxieties are teased out in a lockdown experience.” “It’s hard to separate the love from the pain with those people who know you the best,” he adds about“Our families are a constant negotiation,” said Schumer. “If you can hang on to each other, it seems like a good idea. That’s something we found during the pandemic.”Check back Monday for the panel video.
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