Sorcerer

a new play by Ed Atkins and Steven Zultanski

Three friends hang out, conversing warmly about getting dressed, headaches, ticks, compression fantasies, surgery, and their aspirations, among other things. When two of the friends go home for the night, the remaining one watches TV, dances, and unpacks his face in front of a giant mirror.

The characters find contentment in each other’s company, conversing in the placid, eerie rhythms of a sitcom in which conflict never arises. Unease is exported to the set, a one-room apartment where a bed continuously squirms and everything hums and creaks as if about to rattle to life.

Sorcerer is a play about the pleasures of being with others and of being alone.