The Line - a play by Jessica Blank and Eric Jensen

Erik Jensen and Jessica Blank (Joseph Marzullo/Media Punch)

In the Onstage article in The New Yorker (Aug 3 & 10), attention is brought to a play called "The Line", streaming on YouTube through September 1st.

The article goes on to say, "also available with Spanish subtitles, in closed captioning and sign language and audio description for the visually impaired.  So far, more than twenty-eight thousand people have watched the play, likely a far larger audience than the physical theatre could have accommodated over the course of a run."

The play is only an hour, done in the form of a documentary style of play-making which involves interviewing the real people they depict ....

I watched the first 1/2 hour last night and am going to finish it tonight.

Compelling.

The article says "an urgent, heartrending hour, ... maybe dramatized truth can slip through a window when the doors of reasons have been slammed."

The play is by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen about New York City health-care workers battling COVID-19.