The Coast Starlight (2023 Lincoln Center)
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Keith Bunin’s poignant contemporary drama 'The Coast Starlight' turned the stage of Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater into a beautifully poetic, emotionally rich crucible of human connectivity in 2023. The narrative unfolds entirely inside a train car aboard the coast starlight line as it travels from Los Angeles to Seattle, tracking six completely disparate strangers who find themselves unexpectedly sharing a row. Over the course of the long-distance voyage, the characters engage in a fluid tapestry of spoken confessions and silent internal monologues, unpeeling their private anxieties, military traumas, and hidden histories. Directed with precise atmospheric tension by Tyne Rafaeli, the production starred a brilliant ensemble cast.
