Zachary Hates Everything...

Zachary is struggling to make it through his senior year of high school. After a Homecoming dance gone wrong, he is left with a hole in his memory and an eerily familiar song that won't leave his head. This piece features: lots of teen angst, dead composers talking about consent, tit pics, and smoking a Twix.

Zachary is struggling to make it through his senior year of high school. After a Homecoming dance gone wrong, he is left with a hole in his memory and an eerily familiar song that won't leave his head. This piece features: lots of teen angst, dead composers talking about consent, tit pics, and smoking a Twix.

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Zachary Hates Everything...

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  • Matthew McLachlan: Zachary Hates Everything...

    A visceral and dark play on trauma, love, family, and friendship, all mixed up in a rollercoaster of teenage darkness. It's a great play for a young audience who is ready to see some dark shit and not have things spoon-fed to them, like most plays for young audiences.

    A visceral and dark play on trauma, love, family, and friendship, all mixed up in a rollercoaster of teenage darkness. It's a great play for a young audience who is ready to see some dark shit and not have things spoon-fed to them, like most plays for young audiences.

  • Nick Malakhow: Zachary Hates Everything...

    A bold, theatrical exploration of identity, coming of age, trauma, and mental health in adolescents. I so appreciated how Feinstein's teenage characters were complex, mercurial, and nuanced humans--making them all the more real! In this piece, they raise essential conversations about depression and trauma in teens and the ways those things shape and inform their lives going forward. I loved the ways these characters were so different in various settings--Zachary with Marisol, vs. Beth, vs. their fantastical/musical friends--which also felt true to life. The final scene is a potent, powerful...

    A bold, theatrical exploration of identity, coming of age, trauma, and mental health in adolescents. I so appreciated how Feinstein's teenage characters were complex, mercurial, and nuanced humans--making them all the more real! In this piece, they raise essential conversations about depression and trauma in teens and the ways those things shape and inform their lives going forward. I loved the ways these characters were so different in various settings--Zachary with Marisol, vs. Beth, vs. their fantastical/musical friends--which also felt true to life. The final scene is a potent, powerful coda. I'm eager to track this play's trajectory!

ZACHARY HENLEY – 17, he/him or they/them. Trying to get “better.”
BETH HARTFORD – 15, she/her. Wants to be more than just the little girl next door.
MARISOL HENLEY – 16, she/her (but potentially they/them). Coming to terms with who she really is.
THE COMPOSERS – late 20s, Chopin, Berlioz, Mozart, and Shostakovich. Parts of ZACHARY’s mind, trying
to tell him something.
WINDSOR/MOM – 35+, Trying their best to help in this rapidly changing world.

Development History

  • Type Workshop, Organization validBodies Art Project, Year 2021
  • Type Reading, Organization Philadelphia Women's Theatre Festival, Year 2019