This play is intense, surprising, intimate, beautiful, and heartbreaking. Oliveira not only establishes two vividly-realized main characters and a compelling relationship, but also an entire dystopian world illustrated solely through well-chosen details about those characters' lives. I love how the piece also works for me as haunting sci-fi as well as a figurative exploration of the suffocating nature of relationships, the dual paradise-purgatory of infatuation and desire, or any number of intersectionally rich readings one can make. The pacing and structure is engrossing, the images bold, and the characters' evolving relationship fascinating. I'd love to see it live!

I was lucky enough to see the premiere production of this play. a gorgeous play about desire yes, but also about how we hold onto one another when the world is falling apart.

Heard an excerpt of this piece in 2016 at the Fornes Presentation. I was captured at the ways that the writer uses weather, touch, and dialogue to flush out complicated and real characters.