12 Last Songs – January 17
January 17, 2026
The Ellen Stewart Theatre
66 E 4th Street
New York, NY 10003
Tickets:
Sliding Scale
We believe everyone should have access to this work. The suggested price for 12 Last Songs is $30 per ticket, but we invite you to contribute at the level that feels right for you. Larger contributions help make this epic-scale production possible and keep tickets affordable for others.
If cost is ever a barrier, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at ticketing@utrfest.org — we want you in the room.
It is important to note that 12 Last Songs is unscripted and we cannot guarantee what might be discussed.
ABOUT
NICE TO MEET YOU. WHAT DO YOU DO?
12 Last Songs is part live exhibition, part epic performance. It’s about work and how we spend our time. Making a living. Finding your passion. Watching the clock. From midday to midnight on Saturday, January 17, real workers from New York City will perform paid shifts on stage, in front of a live audience. There are no actors. A builder might build a wall, a hairdresser might cut someone’s hair, a chef might prepare a meal. We’ll find out what they do, and how they see themselves in the world….
30 workers. 12 hours. Made for and with the people of NYC. 12 Last Songs frames the rhythms of the city through the people who make it work. There will be just 12 versions of 12 Last Songs taking place around the world. New York City is number 9. 12 Last Songs is unscripted, and therefore we don’t know what subjects might arise during the performance. It is important to note that we cannot guarantee what might be discussed.
12 Last Songs is a durational performance that does not have a conventional seating plan or reserved seating. Audiences will be situated on the stage as well as in the auditorium, where the performance is taking place. There will be seating offering different views, perspectives and sight-lines, and you will be able to choose, subject to occupancy, where you’d like to sit.
A limited number of tickets will be available for advance purchase. All other tickets to 12 Last Songs will be sold at the door.
BIO
Quarantine is an award-winning ensemble of artists and producers making cross-disciplinary work that explores what it means to live right now. Founded in 1998 in Manchester, UK, they create and tour projects around the world that are both intimate and immediate in their relationships with people and global in their reference and scope. Quarantine has an international reputation for intellectually rigorous, socially progressive and formally inventive art that questions who gets seen, whose stories are told and who stands in for whom – questions about representation lie at the heart of their work.
CREATIVE TEAM
Concept and Direction – Richard Gregory
Performers and Collaborating Artists – Lowri Evans, Ella Otomewo, Michael Sherin and Leentje Van de Cruys
Designer – Simon Banham
Lighting Design – Mike Brookes
Associate Lighting Designer – Kathrine Sandys
Collaborating Artist/Assistant Director – Sarah Hunter
Video Artist – Lowri Evans
Questions text – Sarah Hunter, Leentje Van de Cruys, and Quarantine
Dramaturgy – Renny O’Shea, Sarah Hunter, and Leentje Van de Cruys
Company Stage Manager – Chi Emecheta
Production Manager – Matt Webster
Producer for Quarantine – Kevin Jamieson
Funding & Support
Presented by Under the Radar, Working Theater and La MaMa.
12 Last Songs is co-commissioned by Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts; Cambridge Junction with the support of the Stobbs New Ideas Fund; and HOME. Co-produced by Transform.
It is supported by Arts Council England and The Rank Foundation.
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