Love Chicken explores interpersonal questions of belonging, choice, friendship, and love. Longtime friends Yan (they/she) and Lolo (they/he) are planning a weekend getaway for their queer chosen family to reconnect, following Lolo’s gender transition and Yan’s estranged relationship with staid husband Dave. Things begin to fall apart as soon as they reach the mountain cabin--the friends don’t show, but Dave (he/his) does, to Lolo’s outrage. Their friend Max (they/them) also arrives, a calm foil for Lolo’s flirtatious affection, Yan’s conflicted self-recrimination, and Dave’s hapless lack of self-awareness. Grievances are aired, prior deceptions are revealed, and new dynamics arise.

The second act takes place all in one evening at Lolo’s place--their quiet night in with Max is interrupted by Yan, whose relationship with Dave is now open, seeking solace after a bad date with someone new. As Dave and Max bond outside, Lolo and Yan unearth buried feelings, building to a confrontation where all four have to choose which relationships are worth fighting for and which have run out of road.

While reading Charlotte Brontë's Shirley in English class, a group of high school students feel alienated by the novel’s seeming irrelevance to their lives at first; ultimately they find themselves connecting to the story and its 200-year-old writer. The story unfolds in their midst, introducing us to Shirley Keeldar and Caroline Helstone and the rest of the novel’s Yorkshire characters. As historic literature and modern day mingle and blur, two queer teens, Theresa and Marie, learn to see one another more clearly.