Love the Struggle feat. Damon Daunno, Amber Gray, Grace McLean & Margo Seibert

A narrated concert of song highlights from Love The Struggle, a new original musical about two of the twentieth century’s most famous and controversial thinkers, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Exploding the image of philosophers as solitary armchair ponderers, Beauvoir and Sartre dive headfirst into life’s grittier side, entangling themselves in love, betrayal and death with a pact of “essential love” that allows them each to take “contingent” lovers, so long as they tell each other everything about their contingent loves.

Fueled by erotically charged writings about their romantic adventures, the couple’s literary fame (and infamy) grows while their bond of essential love is tested by war, ambition and their contingent lovers’ never-ending plots to sever their connection.

A love story with No Exit ...

FEATURING:
Damon Daunno (Oklahoma!; Hadestown; The Lucky Ones)
Amber Gray (Macbeth; Hadestown, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812)
Grace McLean (Suffs; Bad Cinderella; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; In The Green)
Margo Seibert (Octet; Rocky; In Transit)

Narrated by Neal Bledsoe
Directed by Ellie Heyman

Book by Stacy Kray
Music & Lyrics by Yair Evnine & Stacy Kray

Proceeds from these benefit performance support Joe’s Pub and The Public Theater’s year-round programming and activities, including career development programs like the Joe’s Pub Working Group and the New York Voices artist commissioning initiative.

Photo credit: Angela Cholmondeley

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