←Recommendations of Survival Strategy

I got teary reading this. It's so simple, so kind, and serves as a lovely reminder that the simplest of affectionate gestures can solve a boatload of problems. This should be done in every Valentine's Day festival.

I had the opportunity to direct Donna's play at our college and it played very well for our audience. The play's situation reminds us about the necessity we all have for human contact in a world and in relationships where that basic need can often be overlooked. The play is also quite funny and it was enjoyable to see an audience find the comedy while also considering how the script's ideas applied to their lives.

A sweet little play with a truthful, yearning core, that worked very well on stage when I saw it.

Donna Hoke finds those two coworkers, located at many jobs, who just meet at their own level, then throws their longing for tender, platonic affection on a display table for us to watch as it works itself out truthfully, simply, exactly; as it professes it needs to. The desire for this behavior, this connection, this satisfaction arises in, and is confided by, so many people everywhere that one can't help but be suspicious of it when we actually see this both social and personal boundary breached so matter-of-factly. It's so strange and vulnerable, genuine, rounded. An act of intimate perfection.