Camping
What emerges over time is not merely a friendship but one of the most intricate love stories currently playing in New York. Ari and Brit have been entwined since birth, neighbors in a trailer park, companions through every formative humiliation and triumph. They know one another with an intimacy that exceeds romance even as it continually gestures toward it. Their connection exists in that difficult territory where friendship, devotion, desire, resentment, dependence, and yearning become impossible to separate. Theater often struggles to depict such relationships without reducing them to categories. Barclay refuses simplification. The result feels startlingly true. [more]