Body Awareness

Set in a small college town in Vermont, the play depicts the tensions that simmer and eventually boil over among its four characters as they gingerly step around one another’s tender spots — or, in some cases, cluelessly stomp all over them. Psychological insecurity and physiological instability are the key dramatic elements in Annie Baker’s disarming new play. There is potential for an atypical family healing when Phyllis, a middle-aged Lesbian academic, her formerly married slightly younger lover, her lover’s 21 year-old live-in son and a house-guest/photographer are mutually affected by an event: "Body Awareness Week" at Shirley State College.