Still

by Lia Romeo

Thirty years ago, Helen and Mark broke up. Now he's running for Congress, and she has a secret that could derail his bid. A play about lost love, political differences, and how people change... or don't. A story for anyone who's ever wondered: what if?

Thirty years ago, Helen and Mark broke up. Now he's running for Congress, and she has a secret that could derail his bid. A play about lost love, political differences, and how people change... or don't. A story for anyone who's ever wondered: what if?

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  • CenterStage: Still

    STILL is smart, original, honest, and insightful. The dialogue flows so naturally it does not feel scripted, I had the pleasure of seeing at during it's Off Broadway run and it was one of my favorite shows of the year.

    STILL is smart, original, honest, and insightful. The dialogue flows so naturally it does not feel scripted, I had the pleasure of seeing at during it's Off Broadway run and it was one of my favorite shows of the year.

  • Grant MacDermott: Still

    Romeo has, yet again, written something that feels so right now and yet has echoes of the past and will undoubtedly be relative for years to come. Marrying political with personal she shines so brightly a light on all the ways we as humans can be infected--by disease, by ideologies, by prejudice, by our pasts--and suggests, in the most subtle and honest of ways that there is a solution to it all. You feel at the end she has given you the answer and yet she, so artfully, has not. The answer is in the conversations this play will generate.

    Romeo has, yet again, written something that feels so right now and yet has echoes of the past and will undoubtedly be relative for years to come. Marrying political with personal she shines so brightly a light on all the ways we as humans can be infected--by disease, by ideologies, by prejudice, by our pasts--and suggests, in the most subtle and honest of ways that there is a solution to it all. You feel at the end she has given you the answer and yet she, so artfully, has not. The answer is in the conversations this play will generate.

  • Nick Malakhow: Still

    A rich, nuanced two-hander that explores political divisions and the tribalism that infects and impacts political discourse today! Rather than simply presenting those thorny divisions onstage, claws and fangs bared, Romeo has so wisely chosen two people desperately in need of a nuanced discussion as well as this connection with each other. Because of that, the play so elegantly navigates both the emotional and logical aspects of political discussions, philosophy, and the current socio-political climate of the US. I "root" for and understand both characters and found the ending both satisfying...

    A rich, nuanced two-hander that explores political divisions and the tribalism that infects and impacts political discourse today! Rather than simply presenting those thorny divisions onstage, claws and fangs bared, Romeo has so wisely chosen two people desperately in need of a nuanced discussion as well as this connection with each other. Because of that, the play so elegantly navigates both the emotional and logical aspects of political discussions, philosophy, and the current socio-political climate of the US. I "root" for and understand both characters and found the ending both satisfying and a rejection of pat, easy answers.

Development History

  • Type Workshop, Organization SOMA Stage, Year 2023
  • Type Residency, Organization The Road Theatre's Under Construction Playwrights Group, Year 2022
  • Type Reading, Organization The Juilliard School, Year 2022
  • Type Reading, Organization LAByrinth Theatre Company, Year 2022

Production History

  • Type Professional, Organization Dorset Theatre Festival, Year 2023

Awards

  • O'Neill National Playwrights Conference
    Finalist
    2023