Love Me Now

“I know you feminists are all about sexual equality, and women should be allowed to sleep around, but.. …I just don’t like the thought of you with someone else.” She’s a cool girl. – She’s independent. – She doesn’t worry about what she eats. – And she fucks whoever she wants. But when casual sex comes routine and what was convenient becomes all-consuming, she’s stuck being someone she never wanted to be. Michelle Barnette’s brutal debut play explores the toxicity of casual dating and the gray area between love and sex, consent and compliance, yes and no.