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Let me announce my trilogy of short plays, collectively titled IN BETWEEN.
These are
three stories about three couples in various locations in Southern California.
Each of these couples have recently made love. Each of these couples will soon
make love again. The action we see within these plays is the time in between being as close as two human
beings can possibly be...and the realization that their intimacy has changed
them both at a profound level.
We meet an
avant-garde painter and a recently liberated caretaker; two young friends
learning that fun can be the gateway to true love; a military wife with needs
and dreams and the head shop owner who hides his own with a jester-like
persona.
Each of
these plays meets these couples in between...a place where they have decisions
to make. Making a decision is the heart of drama. It is decisions, both ours
and those of the people around us, which shape our lives. A punch in the face
or the firing of a gun are not always what drama looks like.
What is my
goal in creating this set of plays? Well, besides getting my name in a program,
it’s about both desensationalizing and resensationalizing sex. Sound confusing?
Let me explain.
Most people,
when they hear that a play will have some sexual content in it, immediately
think: “Ew, it’s going to be dirty,” or “Man, this is going to make me horny.”
Neither of these is what IN BETWEEN is about. These plays contain no nudity and
no words that can’t be said on network television.
I aim to harness
the power of suggestion. To make a gesture such as taking a partner’s hand or
kissing a partner’s forehead say more than words ever can.
For the
three couples of IN BETWEEN, making love
is not just recreational. These magical moments take couples into another
world, a world of intensified sensations and emotions. When the apartment or
bedroom door closes, the characters are not the same people they are in the
world where most of us can see them. The closing of the physical door is just
the overt sequestration...it is the touch of skin on skin that opens the door
to the new world that lovers make for each other. What the lovers do on stage
is show how much traveling to that new world has changed them.
IN BETWEEN,
I hope, will be a lovely night at the theater...for lovers and for those in
between loves.
To learn more, please e-mail jennie@jenniebrownhakim.com
