Eat Your Young

by J.C. Pankratz

The New Frontiers wilderness therapy program, where parents send their teens to work out their capital T Trauma, seems inclusive, progressive, and all about the LGBTQs. But as Lucia, Jelly, Ginger, and Quinn quickly discover, healing can have an insidious underbelly. As their out-of-touch counselors spiral out of control and the ground beneath their feet literally starts cracking open, these four queer campers...

The New Frontiers wilderness therapy program, where parents send their teens to work out their capital T Trauma, seems inclusive, progressive, and all about the LGBTQs. But as Lucia, Jelly, Ginger, and Quinn quickly discover, healing can have an insidious underbelly. As their out-of-touch counselors spiral out of control and the ground beneath their feet literally starts cracking open, these four queer campers must band together to reckon with monsters — manmade or otherwise.

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  • Kate Connors: Eat Your Young

    Once I started reading, I couldn't stop. Delicious dialogue and themes and clear characters. Excellent moments of deep despair, tender healing, and delightfully surprising laughter. I now desperately want to do this play.

    Once I started reading, I couldn't stop. Delicious dialogue and themes and clear characters. Excellent moments of deep despair, tender healing, and delightfully surprising laughter. I now desperately want to do this play.

  • RICK PARK: Eat Your Young

    The poetry in this writing is a joy. Just a delight for the ears and an almost calming force in a crazy, weird, chaotic world that the play exists in.

    The poetry in this writing is a joy. Just a delight for the ears and an almost calming force in a crazy, weird, chaotic world that the play exists in.

Development History

Production History

  • Type University, Organization Boston Playwrights' Theatre at BU, Year 2023