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Drury University Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre, Haddy Kreie. “Briefly, it s about a couple who s lost a child to a drowning incident. And it s really about them sorting through their grief, and how a relationship can disintegrate in the face of grief; also, their attempts to reconcile that and to come to terms with a new future and with the remaining child who s left behind as well.” Sometimes it’s difficult to tell whether the child in the drowning incident is dead or alive, although the character never appears in the play. Haddy Kreie attributes the ambiguity to the way Jenny Schwartz has written the script. “The play is written in a way that utilizes language to an absurd degree. So there s a lot of lack of clarity, which is part of the traumatic experience. And so she s really exploiting, I think, the way our language falls apart, and our inability to sometimes see the truth when we re facing impending or past trauma.” ....