GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES

March 14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd, & 23rd 2024

7:30pm

RPL Nordlof Center

118 N Main Street, Rockford Illinois

Written by Rajiv Joseph

Directed by Nicholas Barelli

Featuring Phillip Fox & Mia Marks

It’s not your typical love story: Doug and Kayleen meet at the nurse’s office in their elementary school; she’s got a painful stomach ache, and he’s all banged up from a running dive off the roof of the school. Over the next thirty years, these scar-crossed lovers meet again and again, brought together by injury, heartbreak, and their own self-destructive tendencies. With great compassion and humor, playwright Rajiv Joseph (Broadway’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo) crafts a compelling and unconventional love story about the intimacy between two people when they allow their defenses to drop and their wounds to show.