Pen

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Written by Tony Award nominee and Drama Desk Award recipient David Marshall Gant, Pen was heralded as "earnest" and "eloquent" by the New York Times. Starring eight-time Joseph Jefferson Award winner Hollis Resnik and directed by Kurt Johns, Pen follows a Long Island family at a pivotal moment in their lives. Confined to a wheelchair, Helen and her son, Matt, are locked in a relationship where love, guilt, recriminations and the ever-present desire to make things right all share center stage. When it's time to apply to college, Helen tries to hold tightly to her son by influencing his enrollment in a nearby college, while her ex-husband Jerry tries to get the boy into USC, thinking that Matt needs to get some distance from his mother. The relationship between mother and son takes a mysterious turn, allowing the three of them to consider options that were up to now impossible. Pen is a sly, perceptive play about the deep bonds that hold a family together and the harsh truths that tear them apart.