by Lindsay Ginn
A&E Editor

There was a lot of mystery surrounding Pearl Klein’s play, which was semi-illustrated in the last issue of The Ebbtide. Though the synopsis might be a bit vague, the actual production left nothing and everything to the imagination.

We knew it’d be a love story, and we knew that neither of the characters involved in the love story were going to be mentally sound—but no one could have expected the vivid insanity of these two lovers. The personalities were executed with absolute brilliance, and the story itself is a modern day tragic love story. William Mastrosimone paints a perfectly awkward relationship between two lonely, damaged people in a way that seems to just come so naturally to actors Katy Higgins and John Williams Lynch – the only two actors in the production.

Lynch, a tall, burly man and Higgins, a petite girl swimming in her clothes, are totally on point with their massively emotional roles. The viewer’s mind is continuously reeling: What’s the attraction? Where did she come from? What are his true intentions? All the answers seem to be right in front of you, but your mind seems to be the one filling in the blanks.

From outbursts to breakdowns, passions to phobias—this production was full of fulfilling awkwardness and is an absolute masterpiece, both by the writer and the crew.