How You Kiss Me Is Not How I Like To Be Kissed

by Dan Giles

Kiss her, poorly. Decide to take him home anyway. Define the relationship. Set sensible boundaries. Confess secrets. Meet her dad, blow it. Fall in love casually, strangely, effortlessly. Negotiate monogamy. Take him to IKEA, regret it, survive it. Fight about work. Fight about family. Fight about marriage. Make a life together. Fall out of love as easily as you fell in. Now what? How You Kiss Me...

Kiss her, poorly. Decide to take him home anyway. Define the relationship. Set sensible boundaries. Confess secrets. Meet her dad, blow it. Fall in love casually, strangely, effortlessly. Negotiate monogamy. Take him to IKEA, regret it, survive it. Fight about work. Fight about family. Fight about marriage. Make a life together. Fall out of love as easily as you fell in. Now what? How You Kiss Me Is Not How I Like To Be Kissed explores the pursuit of romantic love in the lives of two people who want desperately to believe in it.

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  • Cheryl Bear: How You Kiss Me Is Not How I Like To Be Kissed

    A marvelous and real exploration of love that lands home and is incredibly enlightening. Our needs personally as well as from the other, the truth as we get more intimate, and the evolution leading to the tying or unwilling of the love brilliantly shown. Excellent!

    A marvelous and real exploration of love that lands home and is incredibly enlightening. Our needs personally as well as from the other, the truth as we get more intimate, and the evolution leading to the tying or unwilling of the love brilliantly shown. Excellent!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: How You Kiss Me Is Not How I Like To Be Kissed

    A lyrical play that seems so simple but unfolds to reveal the depths of a significant relationship that is so recognizably and relatably human. An absence of irony makes Giles a very open-hearted and sincere writer, and yet there is nothing sappy about this. With 2 great roles for actors!

    A lyrical play that seems so simple but unfolds to reveal the depths of a significant relationship that is so recognizably and relatably human. An absence of irony makes Giles a very open-hearted and sincere writer, and yet there is nothing sappy about this. With 2 great roles for actors!

  • Shea King: How You Kiss Me Is Not How I Like To Be Kissed

    I really adore this play and how its sweet honest idiosyncrasies stay with you long after you experience it. I love how each snippet of these two lover's relationship feels so close to what many of us experience that I often wondered if someone told Mr. Giles about my personal life. I highly recommend this poetic kaleidoscope romance.

    I really adore this play and how its sweet honest idiosyncrasies stay with you long after you experience it. I love how each snippet of these two lover's relationship feels so close to what many of us experience that I often wondered if someone told Mr. Giles about my personal life. I highly recommend this poetic kaleidoscope romance.

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Development History

  • Type Reading, Organization Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), Year 2015

Production History

  • Type Professional, Organization New York International Fringe Festival, Year 2015
  • Type University, Organization University of Idaho, Year 2016
  • Type Professional, Organization Haven Theatre (Chicago), Year 2019

Awards

  • Core Apprentice Fellowship
    Playwrights Center
    Finalist
    2015
  • Princess Grace Award
    Princess Grace Foundation
    Semi-Finalist
    2015
  • John Cauble Award
    KCACTF
    Finalist
    2015