Of Our Own

Of Our Own

Cast: 3–5

Aimee (16) is Lily’s ex’s best friend. Lily (16) is Aimee’s best friend’s ex. It is the August before their Junior year in high school. Having spoken only once in the three months since the breakup, the two meet. They reflect on past relationships; Tessa who cheated on Lily after the two dated Sophomore year, and Jason, a boy that assaulted Aimee when they dated Freshman year. The two girls discover each other’s never before surfaced wounds. With the earnest vulnerability of sixteen-year-olds, Lily and Aimee fall into the possibility of love. Aimee explores her past trauma and realizes she might not be straight like she’d previously assumed. Meanwhile, Lily struggles to reconcile her decision to be with Aimee as she comes to terms with the true extent of her feelings for Tessa. OF OUR OWN interrogates sexual identities, buried trauma, and what it means (or meant) to become a woman in the 2010’s.

Reading, Wrights of Spring at The Theatre School at DePaul University, dir. Stephanie LeBolt (May 2019)