The Mystery of Love and Sex

Deep in the American South, Charlotte and Jonny have been best friends since they were nine. She’s Jewish, he’s Christian; he’s black, she’s white. Their differences intensify their connection, until sexual desire complicates everything in surprising, compulsive ways. An unexpected love story about where souls meet and the consequences of growing up.

“Perfectly wonderful! Among the season’s finest plays. It is tender, funny, packed with humanity and brimming with surprising revelations. Bathsheba Doran has written a play with such compassion and wry wisdom that I emerged from the theater into yet another frigid day feeling warmed from within.” – The New York Times.

“Wise and exquisitely crafted.” – Time Out New York.

“The best new play of this young year.” – Deadline.com.

“This really is a hopeful and atypically intimate kind of play – ideal for different generations of a family, whether or not that’s a group defined by birth.” – The Chicago Tribune

Rated R