world premiere production
by Martyna Majok, directed by Jo Bonney, Williamstown Theatre Festival, MA / Manhattan Theatre Club / Broadway
costumes: Jessica Pabst, lighting: Jeff Croiter, sound: Robert Kaplowitz
Broadway cast: Gregg Mozgala, Katy Sullivan, Kara Young, David Zayas. MTC cast: Jolly Abraham, Gregg Mozgala, Katy Sullivan, Victor Williams. WTF cast: Rebecca Naomi Jones, Gregg Mozgala, Wendell Pierce, Katy Sullivan.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
New York Times Top 10 Best Theater of the Year
Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Theater of the Year
The Hollywood Reporter Best Theater of the Year
Lucille Lortel Award winner: Outstanding Play
4 Outer Critics Circle Award nominations, including Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play
New York Times Critics' Pick
"A turntable delivers each new scene into view, but as it does we always see the wheels on John's or Ani's motorized chair turning, too (The set design is by Wilson Chin.) It's a play spinning profitably in several dimensions at once."– Jesse Green, New York Times
"The play’s scenes alternate between the two stories of these caregivers, with a turntable set that rotates from Ani’s criminally beige living room and bathroom to John’s upscale, modern apartment with towering windows and a gray-tiled, sit-in shower stall. (The polished scenic design is by Wilson Chin.)."– Maya Phillips, New York Times
"Director Jo Bonney’s staging feels at once grounded in the minimally suggested Garden State interiors of Wilson Chin’s set, and afloat on a cosmic plane that suits the play’s inspection of everyday life for its most essential stuff. At times the production assumes the aura of a David or Caravaggio canvas set in North Jersey."– Naveen Kumar, Variety
"Like centripetal and centrifugal forces, Wilson Chin’s sparse, elegant turntable set suggests that the things that tie us down can also move us forward."– Juan A. Ramírez, Vulture/New York Magazine
"On Wilson Chin’s Bergman-meets-Bayonne turntable set, gloomily lit in unrelenting twilight by Jeff Croiter, Cost of Living has become even more persuasive and poetic."– Joseph Pisano, Theater Scene
"The stage design by Wilson Chin does vital and beautiful complimentary work to a quartet of excellent performances and Jo Bonney’s nimble and subtle direction."– Tim Teeman, Daily Beast
"Throughout, the symbolically circular set by Wilson Chin rotates between Ani’s living space and a Princeton University apartment. Transitions between storylines are gorgeous, bathed by Jeff Croiter in shadow, silhouette and the beautiful things that happen under blue light."– Brittani Samuel, Broadway News
"Wilson Chin's turntable set is gorgeously capitalized by choreographed entrances and exits timed perfectly to the full duration of each scene change. The seamless movement of the turntable, coupled with the movement of wheelchairs, feel as graceful and soothing as a dream ballet."– Ken Kaissar, The Easy
"Note the line of glass liquor bottles on the bar, gleaming like a New York City skyline– a chic, subtle touch by set designer Wilson Chin." –Melissa Rose Bernardo, New York Stage Review
"Wilson Chin’s spare scenic design combined with Jeff Croiter’s somber lighting design provide exquisite portraits of human need and despair."– David Roberts, Theatre Reviews Limited
"The emotional nakedness extends throughout the physical level of Bonney's production as well, complete with a see-through, wall-less turntable set by Wilson Chin that defines the financial status of each character."– David Gordon, TheaterMania
"The production is a jeweled symbiosis of playwright Martyna Majok's unique script, Jo Bonney's spot on direction, Wilson Chin's tone setting design, and four actors so real that you forget you are watching a fictional stage play."– Elise Mareson, Front Row Center
"Jo Bonney has cleverly used the superb set designed by Wilson Chin as though it was another character in the play."– J. Peter Bergman, The Berkshire Edge
"Brilliantly designed by Wilson Chin."– Charles Giuliano, Berkshire Fine Arts
