The Lighthouse Series: Group 5

SoHo Playhouse, New York

About the Show

My Best Friend's Fish

Written by Kiley Gaddis

Henry and Melanie have been best friends since high school. As they each come of age in their own ways, Henry finds himself drifting from her side the more he becomes his own person. When Melanie decides to take a spur of the moment vacation, Henry is tasked with watching her fish until she returns. As he occupies the space, he is forced to come to terms with the harmful nature of his longest and most affected friendship. A new play about codependency, self-worth, and what it means to be therapized by a talking fish.

On Tuesdays We Fight

Written by Nina Kissinger

When a bipartisan college debate club must decide whether to help bring a controversial speaker to campus, six student board members are thrust into a volatile clash of the personal and political. As their vote fractures relationships and triggers consequences they can't outrun, they are forced to question whether meaningful discourse is even possible anymore. Nina Kissinger's new dark comedy, ON TUESDAYS WE FIGHT, unravels the real-time fallout of a polarized generation pushed past its breaking point.

WHEN IT BREAKS

Written by Shaakirah Nazim-Harris

WHEN IT BREAKS is a two-hander centered on Solana and Luna, two interracial best friends who are physically attached at the hip by a single red thread. The red thread slowly loosens after Solana (a young Black girl) is racially targeted by their mutual friend and realizes that Luna (her white best friend), is unable to show up for her, forcing Solana to examine how her relationship to Luna mirrors a much older wound rooted in Solana's relationship with her estranged father. The play examines how erasure outweighs love.

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