The director of the play, Bryan Jackson, a third-year graduate student of fine arts, said he was attracted to the play because the themes are just as applicable now as they were more than 70 years ago. Jackson describes his directing style as very visual, physical and influenced by dance and movement. He is motivated by trying to understand true emotions, but not based on the American realistic style. It is a radical piece of theater very experimental and playful in its tone and ideas. It struggles not to be understood clearly.
People never talk about what they are really talking about.
What attracted me to the play is the struggle of 'him,' an artist, to balance work and love. The struggle to create, an entirely selfish act, and the struggle to love, an entirely selfless act, are at war with each other, which is very dynamic. The fact that the play does not take place in a specific time period suggests something important about its message. The time setting drifts profoundly between the year 1927 and the present day, but Jackson argues that it is never obvious what the year is. The timeless ambiguity emphasizes that the problems six decades ago still linger today.