Tom at the Farm

Tom drives out from the city for his boyfriend’s funeral and discovers the family never knew their son was gay. His brother intends to keep it that way. What grows between them is stranger than a standoff: threats that slide into tenderness, a grieving stranger pulled deeper into a family that will not let him leave or let him be known. Rodrigo Portella stages Michel Marc Bouchard‘s play on a ring of open earth that comes to stand for a whole country turning back on itself. Winner of the top prizes of the Brazilian stage, the production has built an acclaimed international trajectory, with performances in Montreal, Avignon, Paris, Brussels, a tour across France, Switzerland and Belgium, a successful season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and most recently in South Korea. It now makes its U.S. premiere at NYU Skirball on its way to London’s Barbican.