BOOM! The explosion plunges you into the dark abyss as the lights are swallowed up, and you hear the sound of plates greeting the floor. The sound of planes and explosions grow fainter, and two light bulbs bravely buzz back to life.
Welcome to the world of Edgewise (a new play by Eliza Clark, produced by The Play Company).
Surviving air strikes and flipping burgers at Dougal’s, a fast food restaurant in New Jersey, is all in a day’s work for three teens, Marco (Tobias Segal), Ruckus (Philip Ettinger), and Emma(Aja Naomi King). In this world and time, France is bombing America and jets adorn the sky as if they were clouds, raining bombs down on New Jersey. These three teens grew up in a world of violence where they see blood, and not oil, soaking highways. For them, it was just another day and just another air strike until a wounded and bleeding man, clothed in army garb, walks into Dougal’s, and collapses. In a world where everything is veiled in carefully crafted lies and deceit, the questions are many. Who is he? What is he doing here? But the answers, can you trust them? Is he who he says he is? How are we sure that he won’t kill us when he wakes up?
In the mist of all this madness, life continues. [click to continue….]
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