Adam and Evelyn
We Want Love! (the original title of this play) was written in 2003 and performed for the
first time in the San Diego Actors Festival, 2004. There were subsequent performance at
the Broadway Theatre in Vista, CA. The play began as a scene plucked out of an early
play called Zero for Conduct and rewritten extensively. Again, I was experimenting with
depicting characters' wants as graphically as possible. In this case the wants are: the key
and sex. It is no accident that the two young people are called Adam and Evelyn, nor that
the key and the lock are symbolic of, well, you know. I had a lot of fun with Adam's
language. When I was working on the Middletown Etudes, I decided that this scene would
fit well with the other Chestnut Hill Apartment pieces.
To the play.