Driving in circles

Words and music by jay eddy
Directed By Sam Plattus

Premiering at Boston Playwrights’ theatre, March 21-april 6, 2024

Driving in Circles is a new hybrid solo-ish show for solo performer and live band traversing the highway between confessional monologue, stand-up comedy, and rock concert (think: We’re Gonna Die meets Hedwig and the Angry Inch). Set to a sometimes whispering, sometimes screaming folktronica score, Driving traces the aftermath of intimate violence—mapping our hero’s darkly funny, deeply felt, defiantly hopeful journey through the bodymind-altering landscapes of trauma towards something like happiness.

Driving asks: in a world designed to make us isolated and disconnected, to make us lonely and afraid, to cut us off from collective power and communal healing, how do we make our way back to each other? How do we care for each other? What happens when we look at our pain as a bridge rather than a wall—could we make a new world together?

Approximate run time: 100 minutes

Winner of the Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater
Winner of the Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Award & KCACTF Musical Theatre Award
additional support from:
New England Foundation for the Arts,
Connecticut Office of the Arts,
New Jewish Culture Fellowship,
Yaddo,
New Harmony Conference