2021 Finalist Blue Ink Playwriting Award, American Blues Theater, Chicago.

a sequel (of sorts) to RED BIKE. may be performed as audio, digital or live drama.
the Odyssey of the Other(ed). a dark night of the soul. a reckoning.

I lives in Mine's house in a town in the edge-lands. I Misses You, but won't tell anyone. It's Sunday. And last night was a drunken night. This night is going to be the same, but different, on account of a badger and a mysterious opera palace and some other things. How do we come of age when we come of age? How do we live in a movie when we're IRL?

ABOUT THE PLAY: A comic piece with darkish overtones that may be played by one to four actors (or more) that invites choreographic staging, musical underscoring, and an expressive lightness in its playing. Its focus is on class dynamics, inequality, and search for spiritual grace. It paints a portrait of a town called Albemarle in the edgelands, and a figure named I (ideally played by female or non-binary actor) that is on the cusp of finding themselves after a prolonged period of mourning someone they loved. In the play, in a picaresque manner, we follow I as they encounter Mine's, their guardian, their Friend, a Squatter, a Badger and a Cleaner on a long night as the one they love and lost haunts their imagination. Each encounter is a step toward potential transformation and redemption. Written in ardent yet plain-spoken poetic prose, the piece is an intimate yet epic personal soul ride that casts a wide, long view on subjects of climate grief and change, late capitalism, and hope in the body politic.