Better than any other play about process, ART GETS WHAT IT WANTS takes the time to examine the ways that collaboration can both affirm and drain the parts of the whole. You learn to love Glen and Julie and also want to dunk their heads in the toilet. And when the play reveals its surprises, you will be shocked and delighted. Sean’s voice is so vivid, equal parts satirical and deeply invested in why people act like the animals that they are.

This is cluttered with the mess of the emotions and, yes, conflict that spill out and fill the entirety of this shared space we call theatre. Despite the many layers of reality Swenson so excellently pulls us through, the friendship at the core of this story feels so natural to follow. Sharp, clever, and layered with chaos.

"Well, you’re boring. You’re boring! You’re not curious. And you’re not the Velvet Underground okay, there is nothing bohemian or radical about living here anymore, this whole place has been paved over into Disney for people like us, because our parents can afford it."

A great meta-play that never gets lost up in the cleverness of being meta. Deals with relationships between young people in a very real way. Really gets how we relate to eachother and art.