Bryan is trying to take a dump before his first ever varsity high school football game, but he's a nervous pooper - and the bathroom of this ancient rural football stadium crams four toilets in one space with no stalls dividing them. As a parade of increasingly implausible visitors intrude on Bryan's efforts, Bryan realizes that he is not only attempting to poop before a football game, but before every major event of his life. If Bryan can't manage to do his business, he fears that his entire life may pass him by before he has a chance to experience it.

Soda From Water Cups is the story of Joe, an introverted, mixed-race young man coping with the death of his older brother, Julio, at the hands of a police officer. He makes attempts at positive emotional recovery, but he also self-destructively desires revenge. Joe’s revenge plot forces the officer to confront his own biases, but has disastrous consequences. Throughout the play, Joe uses his phone as a remote control to the universe, orchestrating the flow of the story. He brings social media to the stage, plays and replays important moments, and pauses scenes to comment upon the gravity of certain actions. The play explores grief and the damage caused by snap-judgments and it asks whether full recovery from the traumas of urban life is possible in a world where these snap-judgments cause state-sponsored violence.