How To Get Into Buildings

by Trish Harnetiaux

HOW TO GET INTO BUILDINGS takes an exploded view of love, in which confusion blends with confidence, time keeps shifting, amateurs are experts, and brunch can be fatal.

As a blueprint for her play, Harnetiaux used the structure of exploded view: an illustration or diagram used in manuals (for lawnmowers, bicycles, computers) that shows an object's parts apart from the whole, but in positions that indicate their...

HOW TO GET INTO BUILDINGS takes an exploded view of love, in which confusion blends with confidence, time keeps shifting, amateurs are experts, and brunch can be fatal.

As a blueprint for her play, Harnetiaux used the structure of exploded view: an illustration or diagram used in manuals (for lawnmowers, bicycles, computers) that shows an object's parts apart from the whole, but in positions that indicate their relationship to it. Roger and Lucy meet in a convention hall, Daphne and Nick break down at a diner, their stories intertwine as the play swirls around you, rotating on its axis, to articulate the experience of love, with its alternating moments of intimacy and isolation.

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  • Shaun Leisher: How To Get Into Buildings

    I need to see this play produced. So bizarre in the best way possible.

    I need to see this play produced. So bizarre in the best way possible.

  • Nelson Diaz-Marcano: How To Get Into Buildings

    I saw this play a few years ago at The Brick and loved every aspect of it. Unique and bold, this play needs to be produced more often.

    I saw this play a few years ago at The Brick and loved every aspect of it. Unique and bold, this play needs to be produced more often.

  • Liza Birkenmeier: How To Get Into Buildings

    Possibly the best play ever written.

    Possibly the best play ever written.