THE COAL MINE THEATRE PRESENTS:

BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY

Written by Stephen Adly Guirgis & Directed by Kelli Fox

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Stephen Adly Guirgis, BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY, is a sharp and powerful tale of family, gentrification, and social injustice. Walter "Pops" Washington is a retired New York City policeman, and in the centre of many explosive conflicts. On the one hand are grand questions of life in urban centres and professional duty, including gentrification in an increasingly unaffordable New York City, and the ongoing discrimination case against his former employers at the NYPD. Such issues are balanced on the other hand by smaller conflicts between Pops and his jailbird son, his son’s girlfriend, and a slew of bizarre characters that pass through his loaded apartment space, each a celebration of the flaws that make up human nature.

"The play is completely compelling even before its primary dramatic gears start turning..." —New York Magazine