Listen in as Christian Parker, producer & director of The First Line of Dante’s Inferno, discusses blank slates, finding a rhythm, getting the audience ahead of what they’re experiencing, letting the humor live, and the weird magic that happens when people get lost in the woods.
“…I think more broadly, the play is about longing, and feeling lost in midlife, and loneliness, and what sort of questions we find ourselves having to answer in the middle of our lives when we’ve already made a bunch of choices, and have to make some decisions about whether we’re going to honor those, or take a totally new direction…”
La MaMa ETC presents
The First Line of Dante’s Inferno
written by Kirk Lynn
thru February 22, 2026
La Mama Downstairs
Manhattan
tickets: $30 ($25 students/seniors), available via OvationTix
photos by Marina Levitskaya