Sheridan is a meditation on grief in the modern landscape, about what is too private or personal to be shared in a world where the biggest moments of our lives are commoditized on social media.
Stuffed in their Uptown apartment, actress Lucy and working stiff Ethan mourn the recent loss of their stillborn child while struggling to forgive each other their failings and bridge the ever-widening gulf between them...
Sheridan is a meditation on grief in the modern landscape, about what is too private or personal to be shared in a world where the biggest moments of our lives are commoditized on social media.
Stuffed in their Uptown apartment, actress Lucy and working stiff Ethan mourn the recent loss of their stillborn child while struggling to forgive each other their failings and bridge the ever-widening gulf between them. Lucy lives in seclusion, obsessively crafting the perfect Facebook post to memorialize a daughter she’ll never know while Ethan strives to project an air of “everything’s fine” on the eve of a family celebration. Set on one wintry night in Chicago, Lucy and Ethan must confront whether there’s anything left
between them to save.
In March 2018, a ten-minute version of the play, then titled ‘Newsfeed Elegy’, premiered as part of The Arc Theatre’s arciTEXT Theatre Festival. There, Chicago audiences selected it as the winning play to be developed into a full-length piece as part of Arc’s New Play Development Series. The conclusion of this development series, a staged reading of Sheridan took place in March of 2019.
