Cost of Living
- Actor
- Theatre
- Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2018)
Photo Credit: Manuel Harlan, Hampstead Theatre, London, January 2019.
Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living received its highly anticipated UK Premiere at Hampstead Theatre in 2019.
John, a wealthy, brilliant, and successful PhD student with cerebral palsy, hires Jess, a recent graduate who has fallen on hard times, as his new carer. Across town, truck driver Eddie attempts to support and re-engage with his estranged wife, Ani, following a terrible accident that has left her quadriplegic. As four very different lives collide and entwine, roles are unapologetically flipped, reversed and exposed – who is actually caring for whom?
Martyna Majok’s exquisitely original, honest and deftly funny new play explores our need to connect and be loved regardless of the gulfs that disability, race, class, and wealth place between us.
Jack Hunter pins down John’s mix of arrogance and vulnerability.
Magnificent actor. Hunter finds a lovely humour and a surprising hauteur as John.
Photo Credit: Manuel Harlan, Hampstead Theatre, London, January 2019.
Photo Credit: Manuel Harlan, Hampstead Theatre, London, January 2019.
