Mental health breakdowns, profound loneliness, depression, death from opioids, the pain of incarceration, the destruction of the environment, the tyranny of bad law enforcers and a few signs of compassion. All that and more drives 'Swing State.”
Anne E. Thompson, Kirsten Fitzgerald and Mary Beth Fisher in Rebecca Gilman’s “Swing State.”
Before going any further, a multi-faceted warning is in order. On the one hand, this is not a play for those suffering from depression. Yet on the other, it might just provide enough of the reassuring suggestion that there are still those with the desire to help turn things around. And on some level, it also might capture the alienation and emotional upheaval of the pandemic era years, even if that subject is never once mentioned.
In a complex way, the only person who barely keeps Peg going is Ryan , a deeply troubled twenty-something who has recently been released from several hellish years in prison and now works in a low level job. She mothers him to a certain extent. And as suicidal thoughts take hold of her at times, she wants to make sure he will inherit her house and part of her land. But he is clearly terrified to lose her. And in some way, shape and form they both attempt to keep each other alive.
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