Shoe Story at Theatre of NOTE

SHOE STORY is an urban fairy tale that elicits the excitement and dark side of the shoe culture of New York in the eighties (inspired by the cult of Michael Jordan and the explosion of materialism connected to the fetishes around sports icons). Through humor, fantasy and heart, SHOE STORY isolates and elevates the way some kids in the cities lived for a new pair of tennis shoes and sometimes got killed for them. SHOE STORY is a funny and sensitive coming of age story about PeeWee and his relationship with a mysterious street smart character, O. G. Mar, who poetically leads Peewee on a journey from the present to the past--one that O. G. Mar must face as well. The play is set in a shoe store, owned by an "overworked Korean father" who is struggling to survive. The shoe store becomes a world of street characters with clashing misfits, farcical moments, and life- changing events which ultimately provide a unique lens to NY in the eighties when the stakes of survival were high and aspirations seemed just out of reach.