Boys and Girls

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Tom Donaghy writes punchy domestic dramas distinguished by elliptical dialogue that shrewdly reflects the ways in which anxiety-fueled men and women communicate or, more often, fail to communicate. With plays like Minutes From the Blue Route and The Beginning of August, he's been hailed for noticing the ways that people skirt what they mean to say, easing around what they actually think and feel. Donaghy hears people in contemporary relationships going at one another in half sentences or using phrases where logical thoughts are conflated--but, underneath, far more substantial
emotions are simmering.

As a result, Donaghy's plays make audiences think "that's how people really talk"--the [...]