NYTW brings you a folk-punk dream like you’ve never experienced. Shaun and Abigail Bengson’s HUNDRED DAYS unleashes an exhilarating and raw story about embracing uncertainty, taking a leap, and loving as if you only had a hundred days to live. Written by The Bengsons & Sarah Gancher, HUNDRED DAYS is directed by Anne Kauffman with movement direction by Sonya Tayeh.
HUNDRED DAYS was originally commissioned, developed and produced by Z Space and piece by piece productions.

Sarah Gancher is an exciting theater writer who has worked around the country and around the world. She is a frequent collaborator with many of the most interesting theater makers of all dots and stripes working today, and she joined forces with The Bengsons to contribute to the book on their love story/album/imagined event in between and across time and into each other’s lives for Hundred Days, now at New York Theater Workshop. We went deep on the making of this fascinating work, her collaboration with Abigail and Shaun Bengson, how one even collaborates, and Sarah as an artist. There’s even a surprise guest visit, so enjoy! I just want to begin with: I saw Hundred Days at, like, a bar in Astoria years ago, and it has changed quite a bit since all those years ago, so I wanted to ask you: what’s it like joining a creative project that has had such a long history, not to mention a personal history? Sarah Gancher: I love it. It’s one of my favorite things to do is to join a collaborative process that is proceedings and to hop into it midstream. Why is that? Gancher: Well, I sort of have this split life where half of my writing I’m writing my own plays on my own solo, and creating, yo …Read more