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JACK WAS KIND
All For One Theater (Michael Wolk, Founder & Artistic Director; Nicholas A. Cotz, Executive & Producing Director), the 10-year-old company dedicated to producing extraordinary solo theater, presented the World Premiere of Jack Was Kind, a new play written and performed by Tracy Thorne (We Are Here; Good Children), and directed by Nicholas A. Cotz (My Name is Gideon; rogerandtom). Jami Floyd (New York Public Radio’s All Things Considered) served as Consulting Producer.
The production was presented live on Zoom, four times a week, Wednesday-Saturday from September 16 through October 18, 2020 for limited audiences.
“How could you just sit there?” For 10 years, that’s what they’ve asked Jack’s wife. Well, now she’s talking.
Thorne originally began writing the play in January 2019, performing it for friends in their living rooms. Thorne’s intimate, confessional play examines long-seated issues of privilege and complicity at the core of America, as well as our current explosive political moment. Jack Was Kind gives an imagined and painfully human backstory to an actual American event that will affect the country for an entire generation, at least.