Guy walks into a bar....Two completely disparate strangers-a local barkeep and a Hasidic Jew- meet one late night in a barbeque joint off the highway outside of Memphis. Do they know each other or not? What is their game?
A Hasidic Jew and a Southern Baptist struggle to reconcile faith and family with their sexuality.
Poetic and lyrical, the play is a beautiful exploration of religious and sexual identity, clashing cultures, loyalty, hopes and dreams, parental bonds and attendant feelings of safety or threat. It is a plea for understanding and tolerance at a time of fear and religious, moral, and political polarization. But mostly A Shonda is about communication and unconditional love: the difficulties of it, the search for it, and the desperate need to be heard.