“This Not That” tells an intimate story about ambiguity and fidelity. In finely tuned dialog, Gemma Cooper-Novack reveals the intersecting and conflicting emotions that connect Daniella, Marshall, and Jessica, a charter school principal, fantasy writer, and teacher respectively. Feelings of loyalty, fear, and desire threaten to disrupt Marshall and Daniella’s wedding plans while offering the possibility of a less-contested partnership between Daniella and Jessica. Cooper-Novack’s restraint in language and plotting produces a drama whose delicate tremors intimate the cruelties of living in a...
“This Not That” tells an intimate story about ambiguity and fidelity. In finely tuned dialog, Gemma Cooper-Novack reveals the intersecting and conflicting emotions that connect Daniella, Marshall, and Jessica, a charter school principal, fantasy writer, and teacher respectively. Feelings of loyalty, fear, and desire threaten to disrupt Marshall and Daniella’s wedding plans while offering the possibility of a less-contested partnership between Daniella and Jessica. Cooper-Novack’s restraint in language and plotting produces a drama whose delicate tremors intimate the cruelties of living in a world where one must choose either this or that.