Ites the crossroads of New York. Ites the hub of Manhattan. Ites old. Ites beautiful. Ites dirty. Ites a noisy, anonymous, unforgettable point of departure for hundreds of thousands of people every day. Grand Central Station is the perfect place to visit, but whoed want to live there Hundreds of people, many of them penniless and all of them lost, call Grand Central home. This is the story of oneea 15-year-old runaway named Marta de Silva. Loosely based on the true story of a young woman who lived in Grand Central for four years, this play examines the search of one very intelligent, warm and troubled human being to find a place of her own in a disintegrating social system. From a broken family, to city psychiatric wards and through residential treatment centers, Marty has continued to runeuntil she reaches the eliving roome of the worldes most famous train station. Here she finds freedom, friends, dignity, drugs and a kind of hopelessness few American young people can imagine. In the Middle of Grand Central Station is a play about survival and what happens to young people with dreams when the odds are stacked against them. Written in two acts with no scene breaks, the action of the story is bridged by Martyes inner voice, which narrates her psychological journey from a confident beginning to a tragic end. Area staging. Approximate running time: 75 minutes.