She is strapped to every communications device available and obsessively wrapped up in what Marshal McLuhan would observe as the precedence of the medium of communication over the message. Annie Meiseles convincingly portrays a bitter daughter who tells us that she loves her mother but that she just doesn't know her. He accepts the end of the affair but she, obviously projecting her own bitterness about painful past relationships, encourages revenge on the evil Ex. Underneath the humor is a clear lesson about how we often get so wrapped up in our own stories that everyone becomes a walking projection screen of our own lives. Since we are unable to hear and empathize with others.
Nobody pays attention to anyone more tha themselves themselves.
Interspersed with these comic yet meaningfully engaging scenes, Burns also offers some examples of true communication possibly taking place. Baylen Thomas, who plays that man, is at first weary and suspicious and wants nothing to do with the stranger on the corner. But as the play moves forward the other characters evolve and become less preoccupied with their own inner dialogues and more willing to look out and to listen to the value of what the human in front of them might have to say. These changes illustrate that it's not the man on the street corner who is pathetic, but rather our own rushing to avoid human contact. As the characters soften they allow their impulses rather than past experience to dictate their actions.