This Coffee Shop is Dead
Presented May 20th-23rd, 2019 at The Tank.
The play occurs in an upscale coffee shop - the kind of place that does things the proper way. Employees Chester and Olivia are the misfits - baristas dying inside a "dead" coffee shop. Over the course of several days in their lives, we ponder with two young people the causes of such serious actions, and where accountability lies within them. Laden with sarcasm and sprinkled with warmth, the play ponders the value of memories, the mundanity of survival, and the "savior" narrative in a New York where iPhone applications seem to be the only emotionally safe ways to socially interact.