Free-Play Festival: Where I Come From

“Where I Come From,” is a new solo play written and performed by Jerry Metzker with direction by Robert Lucchesi. Featured in PlayGround’s 2024 Free-Play Festival in San Francisco, the production follows the experiences of 19-year-old Fergus Maloney, who flees famine-plagued Ireland in 1847 for a new life in New York City. The play begins in Ireland, takes Fergus across the North Atlantic to South Street Seaport and then continues with him as he tries to settle into a new life as a refugee in New York. Throughout his journey, Fergus faces deprivation, loss, anger, helplessness, uncertainty and hope.