Am I Blue

He is approached by Ashbe, a fey young creature who invites him to the littered apartment which she shares with her absent father. As high strung and flaky as John Polk is nervous and tentative, Ashbe initiates him into her secret fantasy life as she tries to bridge the loneliness which infuses them both

She strings Cheerios to make a necklace and then nibbles at them; puts blue food coloring in John Polk's rum and Coke; lets him hear the sea in her favorite conch shell; and finally, invites him to make love to her - an offer which he politely declines

Sometimes wildly funny, sometimes gently affecting, the play is a wonderfully resourceful study of two young people, both unsure and apprehensive, whose unexpected encounter becomes, for both of them, a valuable lesson in coping with life - now and in the future

Presented by New York's Circle Repertory Company as part of a triple bill entitled Confluence. A highly original, offbeat comedy which ranges from hilarity to pathos as it details the chance meeting of a timid college freshman and the precocious teenager who lures him to her ramshackle apartment

" joyously proves that her great Broadway hit Crimes of the Heart was no happy flash in the pan. There is real gold in that there typewriter" ~ NY Post

"Along the way we sample Beth Henley's wondrous gift for creating sweet comedy out of Southern eccentricities as well as her ability to reveal the sad loneliness beneath the spunk" ~ NY Times

" stamped with the trademark of this fine and vital writer" ~ Hollywood Reporter