Nature turns strange and savage in `The Service Road’ at City Tech
A nature guide attempts to find a lost child after a violent storm of mythic proportions hits Prospect Park in the world premiere of “The Service Road,” a highly visual multimedia show to be performed from Jan. 11 through Feb. 2 at New York City College of Technology (City Tech), Voorhees Theater, 186 Jay St. in Downtown Brooklyn.
In “The Service Road,” Obie award-winning playwright (“Map of Virtue”) Erin Courtney examines what it means to be of service and the true nature of forgiveness. The once-peaceful service road where the nature guide gave tours turns strange and even savage as she searches for the lost child.
On her quest, she meets the denizens of one of the few natural places left in a large city. The nature guide is a modern-day Hercules — very strong, very loyal, a little thick — who is trying to do penance for a very bad thing she had done when she was out of her mind.