Good Bones

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames explores gentrification and the growing price of the American dream in his sharp, funny new play, Good Bones.  A work opportunity to revitalize the blighted neighborhood she grew up in has led Aisha and her husband Travis to buy and renovate a charming old house. But as everyone knows, renovation is expensive and stressful—both for buildings and the communities that surround them. Aisha’s young contractor Earl grew up in the area too, but his memories are of more than just dangerous streets and hollowed-out homes. When their purely professional relationship gives way to heated debate about who gets to stay and who must go, Aisha is forced to reckon with the choices made to get ahead and the painful, joyful, complicated ghosts that haunt her dreams … and her dream house. The Public’s associate artistic director Saheem Ali directs this New York premiere play about community, change, and the soul of our cities.