Five Sessions (A War in Therapy) by Jaime Estades @ the Chain Theatre

Friday, May 22 through Sunday, May 31
Barrio Independent Productions (B.I.P.), New York

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The playwright, Jaime Estades is a Puerto Rican writer, labor and community activist who has devoted his life to advocacy, education, health, and leadership training. He currently teaches master’s-level clinical and advocacy students at Columbia University (CSSW), Law and Social Work Advocacy, and is a former PhD professor of Social Policy and Research at NYU. Mr. Eddie Torres will direct the play.

"Five Sessions" is not a polite play—it is a confrontation staged in real time. Estades’ provocation lands with surgical force: “Would slaves in the South have felt better about slavery if they had therapy three times a week?” The line functions as a dramatic rupture—there is no answer, only reckoning.

"Five Sessions" cuts straight into the contradictions of the mental-health system and the society that frames it. As a theatrical work, it exposes the limits of therapy when structural injustice remains untreated and state responsibility is deflected onto the individual.

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Friday, May 22 through Sunday, May 31 · tickets local_activity · add to calendar today 2026-05-22 09:00:00 2026-05-31 17:00:00 America/New_York Five Sessions (A War in Therapy) by Jaime Estades @ the Chain Theatre https://harlemonestop.com/event/34613/five-sessions-a-war-in-therapy-by-jaime-estades-the-chain-theatre Barrio Independent Productions (B.I.P.), El Barrio Artspace, 215 East 99th Street, New York, NY, 10029