“An intimate political play that grapples with epic themes and is likely to leave you shaken.” - TimeOut The language in the work is thrilling, poetical.” - Chicago Tribune That’s one of the takeaways of Antoinette Nwandu’s Pass Over, a very potent and promising play. “In the insanity of a city filled with guns, and people ready and willing to use them whenever temperatures rise, waiting isn’t so much a malaise as a badge of survival. Combines daring near-experimental form and brutal content: what’s at work is not some mysterious cosmic existentialism à la Beckett, but very real, very tangible racism.” - New Yorker Resonates as a powerful tragedy.” - New York Times Creates a vivid world of injustice while riffing on earlier ones. Moses and Kitch are a dispossessed team like Vladimir and Estragon, stuck in an existential cycle of hopelessness they try to master with gallows humor and jags of deluded optimism.
