Between You & Me
Wishbone Theatre
Friday, January 24th at 7pm
Sunday, January 26th at 4pm
There is a universality that comes with the aftermath of a breakup. Navigating the conflicted aftermath, we find ourselves falling into the pit of breakup clichés. The pints of Ben & Jerry’s, empty chardonnay bottles and Joni Mitchell tracks rapidly become our only comfort. The 'how comes' and 'if onlys' replay themselves over and over again in our minds until the story we tell ourselves becomes reality. Our routine is so universal, in fact, that it becomes almost laughably trivial. The romantic comedy has become a guilty pleasure to watch not because it is ill-conceived, but perhaps because we see in it an embarrassing reflection of ourselves. Our trail of exes have become strangers who know all of our secrets and leave us asking “what if?”
Between You and Me was born out of one of those “what if” scenarios when the playwright found herself stuck on the Chicago "L", stranded with a stranger in an otherwise empty rail car. “What if I was trapped here with him and our unfinished business?” "What if he was no longer with her?" "And what if he was?" A thousand plots began to play out in her mind as she, like all of us at one time or another, found herself spiraling down that post breakup rabbit hole.
WARNING: Mild language.