Break

by Ben F. Locke

(Full Length Work in Progress. Feedback is more than welcome!)

We've all heard of couple's counseling to keep a relationship together but what happens when you go to counseling to break up? An interracial couple, a thruple and two best friends all come together with one goal in mind: to break up. Break asks the question: How badly do we want to change and where's the line between what we say we want and what we...

(Full Length Work in Progress. Feedback is more than welcome!)

We've all heard of couple's counseling to keep a relationship together but what happens when you go to counseling to break up? An interracial couple, a thruple and two best friends all come together with one goal in mind: to break up. Break asks the question: How badly do we want to change and where's the line between what we say we want and what we actually want?

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  • Nick Malakhow: Break by Ben F. Locke
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    A multi-faceted and fascinating exploration of relationships (platonic and romantic and sexual), what brings people together, keeps them together, and tears them apart. Along with this dissection of several very different relationships comes some fun satire on reality tv and the commodification of others' misery. The representation of a variety of relationships--friendships, polyamorous relationships, interracial relationships--makes for a nuanced and intersectionally compelling narrative. I'm eager to follow the trajectory of this play --it's a simultaneously entertaining and thought...

    A multi-faceted and fascinating exploration of relationships (platonic and romantic and sexual), what brings people together, keeps them together, and tears them apart. Along with this dissection of several very different relationships comes some fun satire on reality tv and the commodification of others' misery. The representation of a variety of relationships--friendships, polyamorous relationships, interracial relationships--makes for a nuanced and intersectionally compelling narrative. I'm eager to follow the trajectory of this play --it's a simultaneously entertaining and thought-provoking piece!

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Montrose: 40/50’s. Black. Stern. Professional. Knows how to hide their mischief.
Jeneca: 30’s. Black. Calm and collected but only because she’s been conditioned to be.
Kaite: 30/40’s. Non-Black BIPOC. Loose cannon in all the best/worst ways. Will fight you.
Anjela: 40’s. Black. The life of the party when they're not being everyone’s mother.
Patrick: 30’s. Black. A charming suck up. Still finding their voice.
Devin: 30’s. Black. Man baby but at least he’s funny.
Sergio: 20/30’s. Non-Black BIPOC. More than what’s on the surface. Always there but rarely seen
Aaron: 30’s. White. Yeah, that’s it. Just white.