SPNTD

SPNTD

IN COLLABORATION WITH

JENNA HOFFMANN       HEATHER HOLMES       BRIAN SANCHEZ

SOME PEOPLE NEED TO DIE

A NEW PLAY
WRITTEN BY

JOE RIVERA

DIRECTED BY

JENNA HOFFMANN

HEATHER HOLMES

BRIAN SANCHEZ

MUSIC BY

JOONAS LEMETYINEN

VIDEOGRAPHY BY

JESSE ITSKOWITZ

ART BY

JULIUS BARKLEY

Abandonment manifesting in the margins of society. Outliers in dire straits. Death always has a price. A landlord discovers a kodokushi death in his apartment building then hires a forensic cleaning company to make space for a young couple — but there won’t be enough bleach to finish the job. A disturbing new play from collaborators Joe Rivera and Jenna Hoffmann, ‘Some People Need to Die’ is a tragicomedy of human decay, the business of death, and what we leave to the maggots.

Kodokushi (孤独死) describes cases of unaccompanied deaths, where corpses remain undiscovered for long periods of time, sometimes even for months or years. English-language publications usually translate the phenomenon with the term “lonely death”.

CONTENT WARNING

THE FOLLOWING PLAY CONTAINS SENSITIVE MATERIAL THAT MAY BE HARMFUL OR TRAUMATIZING FOR SOME AUDIENCES:    ELDERLY ABUSE, HOARDING, DRUG ABUSE, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, PTSD, AND SUICIDE.