America Who Hurt You?

Sarah Jones has spent two decades turning the one-person show into an exercise in theatrical multiplication. In "America, Who Hurt You?," she fills the Polonsky Shakespeare Center with a sprawling collection of personalities who seem to have wandered in from different corners of the country, different generations, and, occasionally, different centuries. There are relatives, immigrants, elders, skeptics, patriots, malcontents, and people simply trying to figure out what happened to the country they inhabit. Directed by Eric Ting, the production is at once comic, intimate, intellectually restless, and unmistakably built around Jones’ extraordinary ability to make a single body feel inhabited by many. [more]