Young Jean Lee & Future Wife:
WE'RE GONNA DIE
A world premiere new show from provocative playwright Young Jean Lee

Show Description

A world premiere new show from provocative playwright Young Jean Lee

SEE WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING!

"sly, weird and thoroughly winning… Its forthright acknowledgement that life can be a rough business is bracing, funny and, yes, consoling." CRITICS' PICK
-Charles Isherwood, The New York Times


"Four out of five stars… enormously touching ...  Lee purchases our hearts with her bravery's own coin."
-Helen Shaw, Time Out New York


"It’s an oddly uplifting and often wryly humorous journey toward the embrace of the certainty that being human means horrible things will happen; you will grow old, you will die, so will everyone else, and that will be okay."
- Lauren Noveck, NYTheatre.com


"[an] unusual, humble, and brave show…"
-Jason Fitzgerald, Backstage
 

“The clearest indication that the avant-garde isn’t dead, and has never been funnier.”
–New York Magazine

“She offers the pleasure of brazen theatrical inventiveness."
–The New Yorker

13P (in association with Young Jean Lee's Theater Company) presents WE'RE GONNA DIE, written and performed by YOUNG JEAN LEE, music by FUTURE WIFE, music direction by TIM SIMMONDS, choreography by FAYE DRISCOLL, directed by PAUL LAZAR.

FUTURE WIFE is MIKE HANF, NICK JENKINS, BEN KUPSTAS, YOUNG JEAN LEE, and TIM SIMMONDS

In WE'RE GONNA DIE, provocative theater artist Young Jean Lee explores human vulnerability with her hilariously disorienting signature style. Surrendering her usual practice of casting larger-than-life superstars, Lee sets out to make a show that any ordinary person could perform. Using herself as a guinea pig, non-performer Lee takes the stage herself along with her band, Future Wife, to tell stories and sing songs about our shared human weakness and failure. Join Lee and Future Wife for an evening of heartbreak, despair, aging, sickness, and death. You may be miserable, but you won’t be alone.

For more information, visit www.13P.org or www.youngjeanlee.org .