Listen in as The Mall The Mall The Mall playwright Philip Kenner and director James Wyrwicz discuss setting the conditions for the tone, early teenage friendships, double-dip playwriting, the benefit of creative restrictions, Scooby-Doo as text, playing in a video-game-like world, reference bombardment, wonderful and horrible moments of transformation, and how when everything is meaningless, anything can have all the meaning in the world.

“…it’s been three years of watching this play become even more itself, sort of like the characters in the play. It started in a place of zaniness and silliness, and it’s only found more depth, and more truth, and brighter colors and louder sounds…it’s just such a blast to be part of that room…”

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Twin Fruit Productions and Christian & Eliza Lange present

The Mall The Mall The Mall

written by Philip Kenner
directed by James Wyrwicz

thru March 22, 2026

The Tank
312 W. 36th Street
Manhattan

tickets: $28/$38/$53, available via The Tank

photos by HanJie Chow