“We Absolutely Deserve to Be Here:” A Conversation With the Cast of Cost of Living

“The night that I started writing Cost of Living, I had been working at a bar and I got fired that night because they thought that I stole a hundred dollars,” says playwright Martyna Majok. Did she steal the hundred dollars? Of course not, but in hindsight Majok wishes she had. “I had lost a close family member, the person who basically was my father figure in Poland,” she says over Zoom. “And I didn’t have enough money to go to his funeral.” By that point, economic insecurity was par for the course for Majok, who emigrated from Poland to… Read Full Article