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The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy
A man's life hangs in the balance as two strangers--one Black, one White--clash over faith, hope, and the unbeatable weight of existence.
On a subway platform in New York City, an ex-con from the South saves the life of an intellectual atheist who wasn't looking for salvation. Now, the reformed murderer-turned-savior ventures to offer salvation of another kind, bringing the failed suicide victim back to his Harlem apartment for an articulate and moving debate about truth, fiction, and belief.
The two men are named Black and White, as indeed they are. White is disillusioned and disenchanted by the modern world. Black had an epiphany after a nasty knife fight in the penitentiary and discovered a faith that he now wants to share with others, or at least with White. Black begins in control, but it quickly becomes clear that the nonbeliever is much more secure in his convictions than the believer. And when White goes on the attack, his nihilism steamrolls his opponent. Is Black a guardian angel or just a sinner looking for redemption? Was White really saved, or is he stuck in a kind of purgatory?
Tickets range from $22-$30
Please NOTE: The Sunset Limited contains mature themes and frank discussions surrounding suicide, depression, and existential despair, which may be triggering for some audience members. Viewer discretion is advised. Resources for mental health support will be available in the lobby and program.
Runtime: 90 minutes
Reviews In the Press
The New York Times
“The deity that presides over Mr. McCarthy’s world has not modeled itself on humanity: Its voice most resembles the one that addressed Job out of the whirlwind.”
Esquire
“McCarthy’s prose [is] the most laudable, his characters the most fully inhabited, his sense of place the most bloodworthy and thoroughly felt of any living writer’s.”
New Republic
“McCarthy meditates on creation, stares at it. He does not look past appearances, he looks through them…the world is set before us with fever-dream clarity…and then, with simile and metaphor, he sweeps everything into profound animation…McCarthy is writing entirely against the grain of our times, against the haste and the distraction and the moral diffusion…as an old, more spacious world rises up, we experience a more vivid and consequential feeling about human destiny, about good and evil and matters of the spirit.”
Washington Post Book World
“Like the novelists he admires—Melville, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner—Cormac McCarthy has created an imaginative oeuvre greater and deeper than any single book. Such writers wrestle with the gods themselves.”
Location of Performances
The JCSU Arts Factory
Performances will be held at the Arts Factory at 1545 W. Trade Street Charlotte, North Carolina 28216
September 11th – September 28th, 2025
Tickets can be purchased in advance or at the door.
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