Directed by Prof. Roberto Prestigiacomo
Sanctuary City by Martyna Majok is a raw and urgent story of two undocumented
teenagers fighting for love, safety, and a future in a country that promises protection, but
often fails to deliver it. Set in post-9/11 Newark, the play unfolds through nonlinear
moments within a nondeterministic reality, capturing the disorientation and intensity of
lives lived in the in-between spaces of contemporary society. In this production, shaped
by the ProbabilisticStages approach, Sanctuary City becomes a live system of shifting
meaning, where every gesture, pause, and presence creates new emotional realities in
the moment of performance. The stage is stripped of superimposed meaning and
becomes a charged field of possibility. Here, meaning is not prescripted; it emerges,
collapses, and re-forms in real time—a theatre of discovery, not repetition.