This play rocks. This play makes me cry. This play makes me feel like I'm seeing something I really shouldn't be. Kyle writes boy-speak and big group scenes so well, but it's the quiet moments with Titus alone onstage that really get me. Read this play!

Rare is the play that sells itself in the opening stage directions. A blend of intimacy, shame, and resentment result in a palpable atmosphere rife with intimacy, shame, and resentment. Even in the dark we posture for our brothers in arms, burying genuine emotion under the boot of competition.

Smith's play is a tale of queer peril in the heart of the tiled jungle where young men become monstrous versions of themselves in the name of a dying paradigm. Yet somehow, hope is the last man standing.

Changing rooms are a minefield of confused sexuality, body insecurity, and emotional vulnerability. Playwright Kyle Smith ratchets this milieu up by centering the painful journey of a trans/agender character whose painful coming out results in his relationship with his water polo teammates disintegrating as their camaraderie grows over the course of a contentious season. The audience viscerally feels Titus’ pain and isolation as they come into their own, and anger at the team’s treatment of them. A fantastic and powerful play about what we lose to become our true authentic selves.