Wow. This is brilliant. The awkward purpose filled pacing of the show is in itself a metaphor to the life of Luca Levi. Corona weaves you through reality and delusion so deftly and does it without a safety net for the protagonist. Within it all though, the playwright within the script is portrayed in a way that champions and also makes you question your own mind when creating. I have to see this produced live.

Luca is in college, a playwrighting student with a creative imagination. He is also schizophrenic and alcoholic, all of which means that he is not always certain whether what is happening around him is delusion or illusion or reality. And the play is so well conceived that at times the audience shares those uncertainties. After causing a horrible accident, Luca vows to get the help he needs and to do the work he knows will not be easy. I hope college-age actors everywhere will accept the challenge of this masterful, unsettling work from the creative mind of Jarred Corona.

“We should both get help.” “Instead of being unhealthy? Doesn’t sound very on brand of us.”

Even when you don’t want to cope with trauma, it has a way of manifesting and haunting you—a notion Jared Corona viscerally captures in this atmospheric and painfully raw play. Hands reach out from under the bed and behind seats, the line between reality and nightmare blurs. Devastating, yet not without hope, TINNITUS, STATIC, AND HIM is sure to sit with you long after you’ve read it.