This is what Eric Sullivan returns to for his ten-year high school reunion, at which he discovers that out of a class of 99, no one remembers him. Since leaving Sullivan, he became a decorated war hero while suffering severe wounds fighting in Mogadishu which the town thought was a short lived television show , and after his military service, he made his fortune. His return home is partly to re-establish a lapsed romantic relationship, but he is in on business. The play takes place on a stage in an unknown theatre in Her family wants other things for her.
Especially her mother. The writer of the play has left instructions that all the characters of the play must be played by women, even the male roles. As the actresses rehearse and get closer to opening night they find that the play is causing them to remember painful memories of their own, especially the actress playing the main role Sasha. Sasha is a new Actor and this play is her big break but in order for her to truly find out who Addie is. Sasha must first find the pain that is inside her and use it to tell this story.
As the days get close to opening night the actors break out in conversations about love, abuse, racism, and womanhood, and what it means to be a Black Actress in the world and the sacrifices you have to make. Like almost anyone who has grieved, they can both attest that the idea there are only five stages of grieving is hilarious.
Together they try to make plans for an unknown motherhood, kind but complicated technology, and a future without them. An extended one act dark comedy that looks at an ill-fated romance between two teachers that evolves and dissolves over the course of a school year.
Ten minutes before show time, the cast learns that they will have to go on without their sound engineer and all the sound equipment.
