What do four supposed strangers in a yoga studio have in common? Besides tight hips and shoulders that click sometimes.“ Um...Om” is an immersive theatre experience in which audience members are invited to roll out a yoga mat and participate in or simply observe a vinyasa flow class interspersed with onstage action. This play explores the themes of love, longing, and loneliness in New York City. Toby, a Chilean who grew up in Chicago, is an accountant living in the city and looking for friends, not sex, he swears it. But that doesn’t stop him from wanting to date his best friend Zaida who has convinced him to take his first ever yoga class. Zaida the former dancer desperately tries to connect to her body through yoga after years of self-abuse through ballet, booze, and bad relationships. For Emma the teacher and fixer, she religiously takes Taylor’s class because she craves validation from her unrequited love affair with her yoga teacher. She has been chasing and getting physical with Taylor for two years, and yet there is still no exclusivity and no fingers tangled up in public. Finally, Taylor the yoga instructor fills her schedule with teaching, partying, and sleeping with everyone to distract her from the pain of her ex-fiancée Christine and her father’s death. All of these facts are slowly unveiled throughout this actual 90-minute yoga class. Taylor leads the characters and audience members through the asanas, and unbeknownst to each other, the characters voice their internal dialogue aloud as they physically exhaust themselves. From time to time, the yogis step off their mats to relive strong memories that are evoked through their stream of consciousness. Open up your anahata heart chakra as you learn what connects these soul searchers to yoga and to each other. Maybe you’ll even find a bit of yourself on the mat too.