if there is breakage you will find chips

by Mak Shealy

HAELEY is fresh out of a breakup and ANYA is desperate for a career break. The moment their worlds intersect, life begins to cascade and spread out into a permanent connection. As they navigate the very edges of love and understanding, they grow together and against each other, colliding with the world around them. A meditation on the way we crash into each other's lives if there is breakage you will find chips...

HAELEY is fresh out of a breakup and ANYA is desperate for a career break. The moment their worlds intersect, life begins to cascade and spread out into a permanent connection. As they navigate the very edges of love and understanding, they grow together and against each other, colliding with the world around them. A meditation on the way we crash into each other's lives if there is breakage you will find chips is a play where days and weeks flip into months and years, tracing the cumulative micro and macro bits that stick in our memory, even if it's just a flash of a cross street in Brooklyn where hand-me-down furniture and a broken mirror sit after life takes the owners onto their next chapter.

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if there is breakage you will find chips

Character Information

  • ANYA
    Family values and tradition is everything to Anya. A screenwriter, excellent baker and comic with a brilliant smile. Expressive and animated.

    NOTES: It is mentioned that this character carries a child.
    Character Age
    25-35
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any Race or ethnicity
    Character Gender Identity
    Agender/Non-binary (they/them);
  • HAELEY
    Practical. Attached to and aware of reality, even the pieces that might be better left forgotten. A medical receptionist currently working for Planned Parenthood. Witty, dry sense of humor.

    NOTES: It is mentioned that this character has endometriosis.
    Character Age
    25-35
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    she/her pronouns

Development History

  • Type Reading, Organization Original Idiots, Year 2021

Production History

  • Type Professional, Organization Irondale Ensemble Theater, Year 2021
  • Type Workshop, Organization Original Idiots, Year 2021

Awards

  • Mainstage Production Selection
    On Women Festival, Irondale
    Selection
    2021