Individual Artist Grantee: Tom Block
Date:
Saturday, June 7, 2025
7:00 PM
Location:
114-04 14th Road
College Point, NY 11356
A Great Wave II highlights the challenges faced by immigrant communities when juggling their home values and cultures and the new American way. This play is set in 1893, begins with the arrival of Annalisa’s husband, Alfred, from Germany. Alfred brings the old world values and chafes at the changes in his wife. Annalisa’s brother, Hermann and sister-in-law, Susanna, find themselves stuck between the old world ways of Alfred, and their newer American life.
There is much overlap between the experience of immigrants in the Ellis Island era, and those coming today, as well as touching on issues such as women's rights (the right to vote then; freedom of choice today); gender roles, living in Queens etc.
College Point is a community that has been overlooked since its heyday, more than a century ago. We look to use this play reclaim the powerful and important past, and give the local community a sense of its importance in New York City's history.
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