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Share The Empty Space’s mission is to provide professional quality live theatre to the community of Bakersfield and to create an opportunity for local actors, directors and technicians to work in a creative environment that allows them to express themselves and their artistic ideas while encouraging them to continue to study and improve their craft.
Description
Gruesome Playground injuries
Written by Rajiv Joseph
Directed by Maya Blackstone
August 16, 17, 23, & 24 2024
ABOUT THE PLAY
Over the course of 30 years, the lives of Kayleen and Doug intersect at the most bizarre intervals, leading the two childhood friends to compare scars and the physical calamities that keep drawing them together.
It’s not your typical love story: Doug and Kayleen meet at the nurse’s office in their elementary school; she’s got a painful stomach ache, and he’s all banged up from a running dive off the roof of the school. Over the next thirty years, these scar-crossed lovers meet again and again, brought together by injury, heartbreak, and their own self-destructive tendencies. With great compassion and humor, playwright Rajiv Joseph (Broadway’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo) crafts a compelling and unconventional love story about the intimacy between two people when they allow their defenses to drop and their wounds to show.
STARRING:
Molly Jiron as Kayleen
Trinidad James Sandoval as Doug
with Charlotte Smith, Kayleen Understudy
Venue Details
The Empty Space
5417 Woodmere DriveBakersfield, California 93313
