←Recommendations of moon love

Love. Vulnerable, scary and precious. This is a play that takes you on a trip with unexpected side steps, but a journey worth taking.

A night that could've led to regrets becomes a night full of acceptance and understanding. Kieran Khanna takes us through an emotional journey of discovery that is more than just a drunken night or a one night stand, but a sweet, passionate, complicated story about the judgement we fear from the ghosts of our past and the love we fear to accept or believe we deserve.

I saw this script as a reading at the Midwest Dramatists Conference. A drunken night turned odd between two friends and a beautiful vulnerability comes out of both men that is unanticipated. Some exceptionally beautiful lines, Khanna's ear for dialogue is gorgeous.

Don't let the idea of 2 drunken college kids in a dorm after a night of partying fool you. Kieran Khanna's "moon love" has so much more emotional and symbolic weight to offer. There is not one twee or false note in this lovely piece. Read it, see it performed. You'll be touched.

Poetic, grounded in reality, and smutty with intention, Kieran Khanna's "moon love" is a sweet 10-minute two-hander capturing the lead-up to saying "I love you". What begins as a gay frat boy fantasy turns unexpectedly into something quite earnest (though it, thankfully, never quite loses its frat boy spice!).

By turns lyrical, sexy, and comic, this play of halting connection is thoroughly engaging. Jeremy and Zach are far more complex and sympathetic than mere drunk college boys. Their drunken foolishness and stumbling toward intimacy ultimately yield a lovely and affirming payoff.

The premise sounds like a comedy: two drunk college aged men return to their room and push their bed together. But this play is much more, showing the tender, the intimate, the awkward, the genuine. Most of all, this play is earnest. Kieran allows these characters to struggle in connecting, facing barrier after barrier, until finally breaking through with a moment of pure intimacy. This is the type of hope and warmth only young love can provide.

There is a moment before you say “I love you” that is sacred. A pause in reality that swirls all these emotions into a whirlwind of apprehension and excitement. Giddiness, passion, doubt, and fear all collide in a tension filled frenzy. Fumbling gropes and awkward kisses are thrown into the mix for safe measure. Kieran Khanna has delivered a warm, peculiar moment that treats the audience to this rarely seen, but highly coveted, moment.

Oh this so sweet and sad. Jeremy just needed to find the right person to help him unpack his baggage before he could allow himself to love someone beyond his mother. Even drunk, Zach is patient with Jeremy and that takes him from annoying drunk to endearing drunk. This is the start of something beautiful, as well as sexy!

This is more than your typical story of two drunk bros getting in bed together and messing around, only to wake up in the morning as if nothing happened. There’s real character development here, and true sensitivity about the feelings of each other. It doesn’t take away from the fact that these young guys are figuring out the mechanics of gay sex, but it’s done with heart and sensitivity, and Kieran Khanna tells it with wit and imagination.