Play

The Roots of Democracy

1 upcoming performance in New York

Now on stage at PACNYC: Perelman Performing Arts Center, *The Roots of Democracy* approaches self-government as a record assembled in real time. The play traces how democratic ideas are argued into being, then revised under pressure, drawing on public speech, civic ritual, and the friction between principle and practice. In a city where protest, policy, and performance share the same streets, its New York run lands as a local case study as much as a national one. The most telling moments are the quiet procedural ones, where democracy looks less like inspiration than maintenance.