OTP

by Elise Wien

It’s 2015, and 15-year-old best friends Ceci and Michelle are taking the fanfiction website Archive of
Our Own by storm. Michelle, a Junior Statesman of America, wants to author The Best Obama
Fanfiction ever written. Can she read up on drone strikes, deportations, and Operation Neptune Spear
and still find time to kiss Barack in front of the Jellyfish tank at the Chicago Aquarium?

OTP is a story of political...

It’s 2015, and 15-year-old best friends Ceci and Michelle are taking the fanfiction website Archive of
Our Own by storm. Michelle, a Junior Statesman of America, wants to author The Best Obama
Fanfiction ever written. Can she read up on drone strikes, deportations, and Operation Neptune Spear
and still find time to kiss Barack in front of the Jellyfish tank at the Chicago Aquarium?

OTP is a story of political malaise, misplaced nostalgia, and what we do when we are incapable of reimagining our futures.

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  • Mildred Inez Lewis: OTP

    Beautifully written teen girls, Ceci and Michelle stick with you. It also evokes an Internet period that is fast receding writing fan fiction during Tumblr's ascendancy. Unlike many plays about the digital era, the language is rich, evocative and poetic without breaking the reality of the story.

    Beautifully written teen girls, Ceci and Michelle stick with you. It also evokes an Internet period that is fast receding writing fan fiction during Tumblr's ascendancy. Unlike many plays about the digital era, the language is rich, evocative and poetic without breaking the reality of the story.

  • Red Theater: OTP

    Any piece that centers and respects the inner lives of teenage girls is already special. OTP takes it to the next level with its perfectly timed pacing, fresh sense of humor, and expansive imaginative landscape. Highly recommend, especially as exciting new material for high schoolers!

    Any piece that centers and respects the inner lives of teenage girls is already special. OTP takes it to the next level with its perfectly timed pacing, fresh sense of humor, and expansive imaginative landscape. Highly recommend, especially as exciting new material for high schoolers!

  • James Kelsey Nelson: OTP

    A wonderful piece that keeps surprising and delivering so much more than you're expecting from the outset - it captures the idealism of people too young to have lost their idealism, expressing it in earnestly awkward bursts of storytelling. "It's embarrassing to yearn," says one of the main characters, which captures the essence of the whole play.

    A wonderful piece that keeps surprising and delivering so much more than you're expecting from the outset - it captures the idealism of people too young to have lost their idealism, expressing it in earnestly awkward bursts of storytelling. "It's embarrassing to yearn," says one of the main characters, which captures the essence of the whole play.

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