Daily Times It was an ideal day for a play in the park and we were an audience
July 19, 2021
We stood on the grass in Central Park, just inside the Columbus Circle entrance and put in our earbuds.
Our race numbers were already pinned to our clothes and as we waited for the whole group to assemble, we watched people walk and bike, ride and run, along the crisscross paths on a sun-dappled New York summer afternoon.
It was an ideal day for a play in the park and we were an audience. Melanie Jones’s bracing and beautiful “Endure,” a solo show about a marathoner running a race and rebuilding her life, was about to take us on a 5K past the Pond, over and under bridges and across sloping stretches of lawn. This is not a performance you can observe from a fixed point. But the publicity materials state flat out, “Audiences are not required to run.” I, in my long sundress and sandals, decided to trust that.
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