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.
CONTACT US
JENNA HOFFMANN
jenna.hoffmann.directs@gmail.com
JOE RIVERA
joe.jairoivan@gmail.com