The performance is a collaboration of drama and playwriting students at New York University s Tisch School of the Arts, theater professionals, community gardeners of all ages and other green space advocates from the Bronx, Harlem, East Village and Brooklyn. Through song, dance, scenes, story and spectacle, the play recounts the creation, flowering, and destruction of NYC community gardens and the extraordinary commitment of many New Yorkers to nurture such places against all odds .
Performances are free and open to the public.
The play runs approximately 75 minutes in length and includes a multi-generational cast of 37, comprising 10 NYU students and 27 community members. The musical director is Michael Keck, working closely with percussionist William Catanzaro. Peggy Pettitt is director of character development. All the performance material was developed from the personal testimony and improvisations of the participants. A pre-performance pageant with neighborhood kids featuring puppets by Aresh Javadi and staging by Jennifer Miller will take place at each performance.