Look, we are breathing

Why do you care so much if I like you or not?
I mean, you’re a teacher, we’re not gonna like invite you to parties or whatever.
This whole, like, “listen to my life story, and bond with me, and read the same shit I read and tell me how much you love it”?
You’re not my friend.
So stop trying so hard.

“Intriguing and bold… An emotionally layered twist on the dead-kid-grief-porn genre receiving an intimate and provocative world premiere under Megan Shuchman’s sure-handed direction. … Jacqmin’s play is also surprisingly funny. She has a sure handle on the ways people use wit to deflect attention from their conflicted feelings. … The performances are stellar across the board here.” – Kerry Reid, Chicago Tribune

Those who die young are mourned for their lost potential. But what if Mike, a high school hockey player who dies suddenly after driving drunk, never showed much potential? While sorting through their own difficult feelings in the aftermath of the accident, his mother Alice, his AP English teacher Leticia, and his one-time hookup Caylee try to understand who Mike was – and who he might have become.