Review: "Coney Island Nursery Rhyme" Will Do the Opposite of Lull You to Sleep
Coney Island Nursery Rhyme Written and directed by Lubomir Rzepka Presented at the NuBox Theatre 754 9th Ave, 4th floor, Manhattan, NYC July 12-20th, 2024 Judge Boothby, Mike Timoney, Jessica Noboa, & Phyllis Lindy. Photo by Valerie Terranova A close relation belonging to one of these reviewers had to be placed in an incubator as a premature infant in the 1950s. How many of us realize that we could draw a straight line between that relative being alive today and a Coney Island sideshow? Inspired in part by reading Dawn Raffel's book The Strange Case of Dr. Couney , playwright and director Lubomir Rzepka created Coney Island Nursery Rhyme , which spotlights a fascinating, lesser-known story from medical history. The directorial debut from Rzepka–who also fronts the band Bleak March –and his first written work to be produced on the stage, the compelling Coney Island Nursery Rhyme takes audiences to a time when preemies were written off by many, including in the medical establ...