Four students meet in college in 1970 and begin a 30-year journey through the brutality of love. Candy, a young dreamer, whose embittered, alcoholic mother Claire also is along for the bumpy ride, falls hard for Book, a tormented young writer whose demons compete for his attention. Walt, Book’s college roommate, battles past his own confusions to become a U.S. Senator, the loud and proud Beulah, Candy’s college roomie, by his side all the way. Trenchant, recklessly funny and deeply moving, AX OF LOVE includes more violence than most love stories, not to mention rage, redemption, forgiveness, and even the ultimate act of love—mercy killing.
Premiered at West End Studio Theatre in Portsmouth, NH ~ 2007
Directed by Ernest Thompson
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