The Many Deaths of Puppy Love

The Many Deaths of Puppy Love explores the tumultuous journey of building a new romantic relationship. Drawing from personal experience the work takes the audience from a love at first sight encounter to hyperfixation, oversharing, the inability to see or acknowledge conflicts and problems, to the hard decisions and conversations that happen when you take your rose colored glasses off. Many Deaths of Puppy Love teeters between melodramic performances by the cast and grounded vulnerability. The Many Deaths of Puppy Love takes ownership of being “love crazed”. Rather than only highlighting moments of over-trustfulness and naivety, we look at the hopefulness that lies within a dive-head-first approach to love. The work challenges love at first sight being a demonstration of confidence, trust, and shamelessness. Featuring performances by Madeleine Gregor, Sara Caplan, Jordan Clark, Anouk Otsea, Meredith Pellon, and Shayley Timm.