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This play was forged after being significantly affected when reading The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekov. The story is set around the Honeyman family on vacation. The pivotal character in the plot is the mother of the family, Julianna, who not only has to tiptoe around her own extenuating relationship, but also uses this vacation as an opportunity to matchmake her children with significant others. She faces the devastating blowback of her meddling, and she struggles with the meaning of family, when her family seems so jumbled up. The best part, of course, is that none of this is stated in the text explicity by her. Subtext abound, tangents allowed, and a touch of the absurd happenings of everyday life.
From the text of Honeymoon...
⚫"DIPPER: We all must leave some handprint on our culture, before the earth swallows us whole. And, only geniuses recognize geniuses. So, if I recognize Chris, who knows... What?
JULIANNA: If you're desperate to support American culture, breed."
⚫ TROY: "Where are the boys my age? Marching toward the next life. I have to watch flanks of young, growing men trail off, scar-ridden from picking one too many fights...can you see them, too? The Ghosts of Veteran Youth, and me, the one stuck inside at night, who never got the chance to chance to die."
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