Join us for Breaking Ground's afternoon performance of Last Stop: Homelessness, part of Get Rooted: A Community Showcase.
About Last Stop: Homelessness: The wheels on the bus go round and round and so does the injustice! Meet Jane Q. Public, an MTA worker whose whole world turns upside down when a mysterious medical condition threatens her only source of income. Now, she has to race against the clock to keep her home. At each stop along her route, the system makes it nearly impossible for her to get the support she needs. Join us for a Forum Play with music that asks "How can we get better services when we're at our most vulnerable?"
As part of this performance, audience members will be invited to step into the play and improvise alternative responses to the systems of oppression depicted in what is called an "intervention," creatively brainstorming systemic change together.
About Breaking Ground: Breaking Ground’s mission is to strengthen individuals, families and communities by developing and sustaining exceptional supportive and affordable housing as well as programs for homeless and other vulnerable New Yorkers. Breaking Ground is New York's largest provider of permanent supportive housing, with nearly 4,000 units of housing in operation in New York City and beyond, along with an additional 1,000 units in development. Breaking Ground's comprehensive continuum of programs includes street homeless outreach (Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan), a drop-in center in Queens, transitional housing in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and permanent supportive and affordable housing across the city. They serve more than 8,000 vulnerable New Yorkers each year.
Note about tickets: While Theatre of the Oppressed NYC is offering Choose-What-You-Pay tickets to this event, we invite you to make a donation after RSVPing if you are able. All donations support our work, paying for rehearsal and performance spaces, transportation, actor and Joker salaries, props and costumes, and so much more. You can make a contribution here.
The cost of running a single Forum Theatre Troupe is $36,000 per cycle! This means that if we sold 100 forum performance tickets at $360 each, we could fund the full cycle of a single Troupe — and that’s before factoring in the costs that support our administrative staff, office space, and more. TONYC runs 12 play-building cycles annually, which are funded primarily through grants, allowing us to keep tickets free while paying actors and Jokers, covering transportation costs, buying props and costumes, and doing everything else that makes our shows happen!
Historically, TONYC has been primarily supported through grants. In the past four years, operational expenses have drastically increased, but our funding has not. While TONYC has an abundance of community enthusiasm for our work, we still need $400,000 of funding in 2024. A donation of any amount will support our organization through a shifting funding landscape.
COVID policy: In order to keep our actors and staff safe, we ask that attendees please wear masks at all times inside the venue, unless they have received a negative COVID test result within the last 24 hours.