This is a beautiful, nuanced play! Avalon is a compelling central character and hir journey is rendered here in the urgent present with some detours to a difficult past. Erin Lerch explores the experiences and traumas of growing up nonbinary in this small town, and captures perfectly the cognitive dissonance of returning home a different, inspiring, more grounded person, but still unable to escape the feelings (and people) left behind. All of this is done without contrived theatrics. Lerch executes beautifully-illustrated seismic shifts within and between characters that are so much greater than the sum of their parts!

I enjoyed how gentle this play was while stilling feeling real; it shows restraint and navigates pushing through some really tough emotions with grace and self-possession, like the main character, Avalon. I very much appreciated seeing a non-binary central character in a story that is about another part of trans and non-binary experiences, a post-coming out. This play deftly examines what we do next with our lives and what legacies do we start to set up so that the people after us have a chance to really get to know and love themselves.

I really like how this is showing visibility to the Trans Community more particularly Trans Youth! It would be nice if the full script was posted if the play is finished. If the play isn't finished I can't wait to see what the full script entails! I am taking a feminist theatre course in college and we had to pick a play that was either written by women or that is gender related. Luckily I got the permission to do my project on a play written by Trans and Gender Non Binary Playwrights!