Martyna Majok’s Pulitzer-Winning Play “Cost of Living” Will Make Broadway Debut This Fall
Martyna Majok’s play “Cost of Living” is getting another staging — this time on Broadway. Deadline reports the production will make its debut on the Great White Way at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre this fall. Katy Sullivan, who starred in the play’s previous Off Broadway run, will reprise her role.
No word on specific preview or opening dates just yet.
The winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, “Cost of Living” delves into disability, caregiving, and privilege. Its synopsis reads: “What is the road that brought us here? Unemployed truck driver Eddie sits at a bar alone, recalling his final moments with wife, Ani, when a car accident turned the focus of their relationship from divorcing to caregiving. Overworked, under-qualified, and nearly homeless, Jess takes on another job to make ends meet – this time, as a personal caregiver for a wealthy and beautiful graduate student named John, who has cerebral palsy. The histories, influences, and challenges of four lives converge in the meeting of two strangers in a small, empty apartment in Bayonne, NJ.”
“Cost of Living” premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2016 and was staged Off Broadway by Manhattan Theatre Club in 2017. The Pulitzer committee called the play “an honest, original work that invites audiences to examine diverse perceptions of privilege and human connection through two pairs of mismatched individuals.”
Majok’s other plays include “Sanctuary City,” “Queens,” and “Ironbound.” She is developing a “Great Gatsby” stage musical with Florence Welch of Florence + The Machine.
