False Solution, the final play in Oren Safdie’s trilogy (Private Jokes, Public Spaces and The Bilbao Effect) on contemporary architecture is finally set to take the stage on June 13th in New York City. The play will be followed by an official press opening on June 16th at the off-Broadway experimental theatre, La MaMa ETC in Manhattan.

Oren Safdie, son of internationally esteemed architect Moshe Safdie, is a Canadian-American-Israeli playwright with a strong background in both architecture and fictional writing (he graduated with a Master’s in both subjects from Columbia University). Even after having turned to a career in writing it was clear that architecture would remain flowing through Oren’s blood. Both of Safdie’s earlier works Private Jokes, Public Spaces and The Bilbao Effect enjoyed great success off-Broadway and received positive acclaim from play-goers and the press.

His latest work False Solution tells the impassioned story of a German-Jewish architect who is tasked with the job of designing a new Holocaust museum in Poland. His clear vision for the new institution quickly unfurls as he spends an exhilarating night with his bold and striking intern, a first-year architecture student, who exposes him to a whirlwind of ideas and drives him to entirely rethink his design approach. As a result of their intimate night together the architect finds himself questioning everything he stands for and is inevitably forced to reflect on the roles that religious identity, sexual politics, and the effects of war play in the creative process.