In the Wake

It’s Thanksgiving of 2000 and the presidential election still has not been decided. Ellen, a hyper-intelligent and politically-obsessed freelance writer, insists that her friends don’t realize how bad the situation really is. Ellen, on the other hand, is 100% sure about everything–herself, her politics, her friends and lovers. No one–not her adoring boyfriend Danny, her new lover Amy, or her worldly wise and weary friend Judy–can make Ellen see the blind spot at the center of her own politics and emotional life.

This Obie Award-winning playwright’s brand new play is laced with incisive humor and surprising revelations about the assumptions of comfort and privilege that lie at the heart of the American character. Her epic tale, set in the turbulent Bush years of 2000-2005, asks us collectively to look for the blind spots that mask us from ourselves.