World Premiere - Theatrical Play

You Can't Spell Assault Without Us

Written & Directed by Naira Sarin Jain

love is a heavy, unwieldy thing; it feels cruel to ask anyone to hold it alone. but any two people can discover and cling to one another out of desperation to experience love, and still find themselves unable to share its load when it arrives. such is the story of natalie and aiden, two young people whose friendship blossoms into romance and quickly turns darker as the world shapes them in ways neither could have expected. how does their love, this enormous abstraction, hold up against the things they know to be truer and more tangible: trauma? gender roles? the exhaustion of growing up? this is not a love story. this is not a love story.