This time

Jane holds a knife. It's bloody. Hester lies on a table. She's bloodied. Peregrine blows out a candle. Go back in time. Jane, Hester, and Peregrine work as maids in a 1900s manor, unable to say what they want to say, stealing moments away from work to hold time with each other. Their love bubbles under their words. We hear their thoughts they aren't yet brave enough to tell each other. They can't stop thinking...

Jane holds a knife. It's bloody. Hester lies on a table. She's bloodied. Peregrine blows out a candle. Go back in time. Jane, Hester, and Peregrine work as maids in a 1900s manor, unable to say what they want to say, stealing moments away from work to hold time with each other. Their love bubbles under their words. We hear their thoughts they aren't yet brave enough to tell each other. They can't stop thinking of death. We hurtle towards it.

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  • Shaun Leisher: This time

    I really loved this play. I loved the getting to witness the moments these women spend together. Moments when they are not serving the whims of men. Men who either see them for labor or sex. When they are together these women get to be their full complex selves. These women love each other deeply even if they can't bring themselves to tell each other how they really feel. I loved the bits of dialogue that only the audience could hear. Would love to see how an actor plays those moments.

    I really loved this play. I loved the getting to witness the moments these women spend together. Moments when they are not serving the whims of men. Men who either see them for labor or sex. When they are together these women get to be their full complex selves. These women love each other deeply even if they can't bring themselves to tell each other how they really feel. I loved the bits of dialogue that only the audience could hear. Would love to see how an actor plays those moments.

  • Gina Femia: This time

    A beautiful and devastating meditation, an exciting piece of theater. This is the kind of story that makes me feel alive, and one that is so necessary for the stage. Highly recommend.

    A beautiful and devastating meditation, an exciting piece of theater. This is the kind of story that makes me feel alive, and one that is so necessary for the stage. Highly recommend.

  • Sam Heyman: This time

    A sumptuous and heartbreaking portrait of intimacy and subtext-made-text - This time is an arrestingly emotional play, centered around three femmes attempting to find comfort in each other from their circumstances. With this gorgeous work, Brian Dang manages to create a new form of tension, between thought and word, between the audience’s awareness and the characters’ private hopes and desperations — I loved and ached for every minute of it. Once this play gets going, no reader, or audience member, has any hope of looking away.

    A sumptuous and heartbreaking portrait of intimacy and subtext-made-text - This time is an arrestingly emotional play, centered around three femmes attempting to find comfort in each other from their circumstances. With this gorgeous work, Brian Dang manages to create a new form of tension, between thought and word, between the audience’s awareness and the characters’ private hopes and desperations — I loved and ached for every minute of it. Once this play gets going, no reader, or audience member, has any hope of looking away.

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Development History

  • Type Reading, Organization Sound Theatre, Year 2021

Production History

Awards

  • Katherine Owens/Undermain Theatre Fund for New Work
    Undermain Theatre
    Selection
    2022
  • Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference
    Finalist
    2022
  • Many Voices Fellowship
    Playwrights' Center
    Semi-Finalist
    2022
  • Hugo House Fellowship 2020-21
    Hugo House