Re: Writing

2P, 45 mins

Jane is a writer without content, and Dylan has a story to tell. In this new play about the ethics of writing, a young queer couple navigates the beginning of a relationship in which one partner's childhood secret could jumpstart the other's career. Re: Writing is a one-act play about the ethics of storytelling. Its two characters embark on a burgeoning romantic relationship, complete with imagined futures and confessions about the past, as they negotiate their complicated relationships with words, communication, and writing. The play’s central concern/question -- who gets to tell your story and how -- shapes their relationship, but the play also becomes a story about trust, evoking that trust, and trusting another person to represent you. 

Dylan and Jane are not people who have gotten to choose everything in their lives, but they have chosen to trust each other. Dylan confesses her rocky relationship with her father via a series of monologues about his betrayal and his writing a book about her budding sexual orientation while she was still a teenager. She asks Jane to write her story. But as Jane’s agreed-upon fictional narrative about Dylan’s experience begins to take shape as a not-so-fictional one, the pair must navigate and negotiate how and why Dylan’s story should be told. Through word games and playful language twists and turns, the two come to a consensus.