About the Project
Ali MacLean’s new full length play The Point, a dark and comedic thriller based on the true story of a murder in the woods amongst ‘friends’. The Poin, which boasts Boston accents, drug busts, brutality, and Bon Jovi explores dating violence, class inequity, and the growing opioid crisis all within two small neighboring towns. This funny, dark, and menacing story explores love and violence, class inequity, and the growing opioid crisis all within two small neighboring towns. The story, told out of sequence, follows the aftermath of a townie love triangle and murder of a co-ed, but on a macro level it examines the rise of economic inequity along with corresponding opioid and Fentanyl deaths.
THE POINT is set behind the “Tofu Curtain”, an invisible county line that divides the quaint Ivy college town of Northampton from the run-down factory town of Holyoke in Western Massachusetts. While Northampton boasts Smith College, Holyoke has the highest rate of pregnancies, STDs, and the largest heroin and Fentanyl trade in the New England area.
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