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This play is interesting. It’s a fairly typical story of a boy who likes a girl who doesn’t like him the same way, but told in a somewhat non-linear fashion and with a frame story that ties in to its ending. The biggest problem for the play, though, is that the characters are both extremely unlikeable. The girl is a jerk and the guy is a spineless (in the end that’s more true than you might expect) douche.

That makes it really difficult to sympathize. There’s a whole Nice Guy vibe going through the play that I just found kind of unsettling. And you really have to wonder why someone would stay friends with someone who repeatedly kicked them in the nads, up into adulthood.

I also found the ending, which involves the death of the male character, kind of unnecessary. It didn’t really add to the message of the play and just left it feeling more maudlin than it already was with the unrequited love.

I give it as many stars as I have because I saw potential in it, but it really needed more work on the characterizations especially.