The Effect

First Preview: Mar 03, 2024

Opening Date: Mar 13, 2024

Closing Date: Mar 31, 2024

Running Time: 01:40

https://www.theshed.org/program/392-the-effect

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545 West 30th Street New York City, NY 10001

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What impulses define who we really are? As Connie and Tristan settle into their participation in a clinical drug trial, they begin to fall in love. But how can they be sure it’s the real thing and not an exhilarating side effect of the new antidepressant they’re taking? The supervising doctors begin to ask themselves questions too: where do they draw the line between love and ethics?

The Effect is written by Emmy Award winner Lucy Prebble (HBO’s Succession) and directed by Olivier Award winner Jamie Lloyd (Cyrano de Bergerac at BAM, A Doll’s House and Betrayal on Broadway). It features Paapa Essiedu (HBO’s I May Destroy You) and Taylor Russell (Bones and All, Netflix’s Lost in Space) as the participants at the center of an illicit romance alongside Michele Austin (This Is Going to Hurt, Cyrano de Bergerac at BAM) and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Olivier Award winner for Tina: The Tina Turner Musical) as the doctors administering the clinical trial.

With a traverse staging that intimately connects audience and performers, this propulsive production’s strictly limited, four-week engagement follows its acclaimed run at London’s National Theatre this past fall.

Off Broadway Play - Drama

Show Notes: No intermission

Audience Advisory:

This production contains strong language and adult themes. There are strobe/flashing lights, smoke and haze effects, with some loud music. Some scenes include sexual content, physical aggression, depictions of seizures and references to depression, anxiety and suicide.

Cast

Paapa Essiedu
Taylor Russell
Michele Austin
Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

Director

Jamie Lloyd

Written by

Lucy Prebble

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M11 M12 or M34-SBS

Directions Subway

7 train to 34th St -Javis Center/ Hudson Yards Station A, C, E, 1, 2, and 3 trains to 34 St – Penn Station

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Elevators are located on the east and west sides of the building. The west elevators are closest to the Hudson Yards Public Square entrance.

Entrance

Both entrances are wheelchair accessible

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There are two parking garages in close proximity to The Shed on West 30th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues. One is on the north side of the block, beneath Hudson Yards. An additional garage is located across the street from The Shed at 552 West 30th Street.

Passenger Loading Zone

The Shed’s Hudson Yards Public Square entrance provides an accessible passenger loading zone allowing for automobile pick-up and drop-off access to the building

Restroom

All of The Shed’s restrooms are accessible. Men’s (self-identified) and women’s (self-identified) restrooms can be found in The Lobby, the mezzanine, and on levels 4, 6, and 8. These restrooms include baby changing tables. Single-occupancy all-gender restrooms can be found on the mezzanine and levels 4, 6, and 8