Thinking Theater NYC

Hurricane Season Written and directed by Sawyer Estes Presented by Vernal & Sere Theatre at  Theatre Row 410 W 42nd St, Manhattan, NYC August 23-September 7, 2024 L to R: Sam R Ross, Pascal Portney, Erin Boswell, Melissa Rainey. Photo by Richard Termine A storm is coming and there will be no shelter – no one will find quarter in Sawyer Estes’s visionary play Hurricane Season . This surrealist two-act marvel sees four lost souls drawn together by the digital drudgery of internet pornography only to collide in the corporeal: a journey from the Carolinas to Los Angeles/Amsterdam and then home again to what ultimately remains of the Carolinas. Though the titular hurricane would ostensibly hug the Gulf and Atlantic costs, the gyre widens, entropy inescapable, blowing across the globe. Tom (Sam R Ross) and Anne (Melissa Rainey) are a middle-aged couple in the doldrums of a loveless marriage surrounded by a world of crises and tumult. He seemingly fills his time occupied with du...