the bandaged place Tickets

Follow a talented dancer on a transformative journey in the bandaged place, a riveting new play by Harrison David Rivers. Struggling to recover after an assault, Jonah realizes the only way to heal is by mending the relationships with his family. Directed by David Mendizábal of The Movement Theatre Company, this world-premiere production offers a humane statement about the scars we inherit – and the beauty they create.

Roundabout Underground presents Harrison David Rivers's the bandaged place off Broadway this fall. Get the bandaged place tickets on TodayTix now.

In the bandaged place play, a dancer named Jonah is reeling from the trauma of an assault. His recovery is further complicated by the reappearance of an old lover, which reopens old wounds. With nowhere else to turn, he turns to his grandmother and daughter for support, and discovers that healing his relationships with his family is, in fact, the only way to really heal from all the damage in his past.

With the bandaged place off Broadway, Harrison David Rivers makes his professional New York debut. He's a playwright and screenwriter whose work has appeared all over the country from coast to coast, at renowned institutions like Washington, D.C.'s Signature Theatre and the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts. He teams up with Off-Broadway theatre leader David Mendizábal, who directs the bandaged place in New York.

the bandaged place is a product of the Roundabout Underground program, which supports new and emerging playwrights by mounting full productions of their work in Roundabout's Black Box space.

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What to Watch For

• the bandaged place won the 2018 Relentless Award, a prize from The American Playwriting Foundation established in honor of the late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. It recognizes new works that "are challenging, exhibit fearlessness, exude passion, and are relentlessly truthful."
• Director David Mendizábal is an award winner themselves. They are a producing artistic leader of Movement Theatre Company, an Off-Broadway organization that has won the Obie Award. Since the main character of the bandaged place is a dancer, we can expect plenty of movement throughout the show.
• Rivers has written plays as well as the books for musicals. His plays include This Bitter Earth, Where Storms Are Born, and When Last We Flew, and his musicals include Five Points, We Shall Someday, and I Put a Spell on You.
• TV fans may already be familiar with Rivers's work — he's written for shows including Peacock's One of Us is Lying, HBO's The Nevers, and Hulu's The Plot.
• Keep an eye out for more of Rivers at Roundabout! As part of the Underground program, he will be commissioned to write another play to be produced with the theatre company.