creation stories and all the important importants | Lincoln Center Theater

Claire Tow Theater / Directions New York Times Critic's Pick! “A HAUNTED SURREAL, TENDER HEARTBREAKER OF A PLAY.” Women give life. And life asks so much in return. Nigerian playwright Mfoniso Udofia (“13 Reasons Why,” “A League of Their Own,” “Lessons in Chemistry”) makes her LCT3 debut with the world premiere of creation stories and all the important importants, an intimate, mythic new play from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary theater. Centering on a midlife Black woman pulled between her many selves—child, future daughter, artist, possible mother—the play pulses with longing as its heroine races against the clock and the limits of her own body. Moving across time and space, from ancestor to AI, from dream cycle to IVF cycle, through music and ritual, Udofia weaves her own surprising folktale on the cost of creation and the impossible work of becoming. “MOVING AND MYTHIC. A RALLYING CRY TO BREAK FREE FROM THE GRIND OF LIFE.” “MFONISO UDOFIA’S SURREAL PLAY DELIVERS HUMOR AND HEARTBREAK WITH BOUNDARY-SMASHING WRITING.” creation stories and all the important importants is supported by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust. Support for LCT3 is provided by the Helen Gurley Brown Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, and members of the LCT3 Council. Endowment support for LCT3 is provided by Daryl Roth, James-Keith Brown and Eric Diefenbach, and The Judith Champion Playwrights' Vision Fund and Mel Litoff. LCT season support is generously provided by Daryl Roth and American Airlines.