HURLYBURLY

by David Rabe

February 6th, 2022 7PM EST

“HURLYBURLY” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com.

Content Warning: Addiction, Suicide, Substance Abuse 

Hurt people hurt people. This play is about people who don't know how to connect. They are afraid of connecting because they are afraid of being seen. Fear of intimacy stems from running from themselves at all costs. Everything is always everyone else's fault. These characters swim in a never-ending swirl of emotions, fear, blame and shame which destroys any chance of intimacy and even lives.  

Set in 1980's Hollywood in the glamorized drug scene, this play explores disconnection, loneliness and the concept of fate. What is fate? Is it just something that happens to us or do we have a say in our fate and help create it along the way? 

 Carl Jung says, ""Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

 Brene Brown, the prominent social researcher famous for her research on shame, empathy and vulnerability says, ""Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage."" 

 These characters can't be vulnerable. And yet, we watch them fight for their inner survival the best they know how. Ultimately, isn't that what we are all doing? Living lives the only way we know how?