5

by JuCoby Johnson

Best friends Jay and Evan run a convenience store in a rapidly changing neighborhood. When a real estate developer stops by with an offer to buy the place, their deep-rooted connection is tested. As the choice to sell weighs on Evan’s shoulders, their community is ripped apart and the very foundation of the world around them begins to rumble and quake. An intimate play that races towards apocalyptic ends, 5...

Best friends Jay and Evan run a convenience store in a rapidly changing neighborhood. When a real estate developer stops by with an offer to buy the place, their deep-rooted connection is tested. As the choice to sell weighs on Evan’s shoulders, their community is ripped apart and the very foundation of the world around them begins to rumble and quake. An intimate play that races towards apocalyptic ends, 5 examines a friendship tested by money, race, and family secrets come to light.

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  • Shaun Leisher: 5

    A really moving play about the complexities of chosen family and gentrification. Killer dialogue and stunning imagery makes up this truly unique theatrical experience. Really hope to see this play produced soon.

    A really moving play about the complexities of chosen family and gentrification. Killer dialogue and stunning imagery makes up this truly unique theatrical experience. Really hope to see this play produced soon.

  • Brynn Hambley: 5

    An effective and delightful horror that uses the eerie prophecies of Christian myth to its advantage to discuss the quiet violence of gentrification and the systemic racism that allows it. Evan and Jay's friendship was so incredibly moving, and Walter had my heart from the first page (yes, even when he was spouting off scripture). I felt so deeply for Stacy as well, which made her villainy all the more heartbreaking. Truly loved this play, and hope to see it staged!

    An effective and delightful horror that uses the eerie prophecies of Christian myth to its advantage to discuss the quiet violence of gentrification and the systemic racism that allows it. Evan and Jay's friendship was so incredibly moving, and Walter had my heart from the first page (yes, even when he was spouting off scripture). I felt so deeply for Stacy as well, which made her villainy all the more heartbreaking. Truly loved this play, and hope to see it staged!

  • Daniel Smith: 5

    I saw this play in previews at Jungle Theater in Minneapolis and thoroughly enjoyed it as a complex emotional and intellectual experience. The production was funny, moving, surprising, and thought-provoking. In reading the script, I especially appreciated the supernatural world-building of the stage directions and the aesthetic background of the recommended music selections. Depicting the co-owners of a convenience store as they struggle with gentrification amid signs of the apocalypse, the play uses a small-scale setting to grapple with large-scale questions. What do we do in the face of the...

    I saw this play in previews at Jungle Theater in Minneapolis and thoroughly enjoyed it as a complex emotional and intellectual experience. The production was funny, moving, surprising, and thought-provoking. In reading the script, I especially appreciated the supernatural world-building of the stage directions and the aesthetic background of the recommended music selections. Depicting the co-owners of a convenience store as they struggle with gentrification amid signs of the apocalypse, the play uses a small-scale setting to grapple with large-scale questions. What do we do in the face of the inevitable?

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