Mom Violet works at a downtown diner; dad Winston struggles to keep his job in the kill room of a slaughterhouse; son Toby fixes cars and dreams of owning his own garage, and daughter Emma, still in high school, dreams of becoming a doctor. But when forbidden love crashes up against reality, everyone’s options are limited by what they have inherited, and by what they can, and cannot, choose to give up. Sometimes a life changes in a moment, and sometimes it never changes. Unfolding over four days and three times periods, tiny dreams ignite or die as the events of those four days unlock the family’s future — a future that plays out in the middle of the present.
About the Author
Chloé Hung is a writer and director. Her plays include Three Women of Swatow (Tarragon Theatre, Dora Award nominee for Outstanding New Play; Centaur Theatre), Issei He Say (New Jersey Rep), All Our Yesterdays (Toronto Fringe Fest’s Patron’s Pick, Next Stage Theatre Fest). She has workshopped plays with Geffen Theatre, Great Plains Theatre Commons, Stratford Festival’s Playwrights Retreat, Banff Playwrights Lab, Factory Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, and The Kennedy Center. Chloe is a Playwrights Center Core Writer and holds the Rhimes Unsung Voices commission from IAMA Theatre. In TV and film, Chloe has written for Queen Sugar, Cherish the Day, and The Watchful Eye, and has developed for Netflix. She is a Film Independent Screenwriting lab fellow. Her short films include SIGNAL (Women in Film’s Production program), and GEM & SHAZ (Bell Media, available on Crave). Chloe holds an MFA in dramatic writing from NYU Tisch. When Chloe isn’t writing, she’s likely baking pies. www.chloehung.com