Keep Me Company

In Keep Me Company, Emily, Elena, and Becca, are three friends in their late twenties who meet every Friday night to have beers on Becca’s back porch in Austin, Texas, but recently, their weekly ritual is in jeopardy as the three friends find different avenues for individual growth. This change, accompanied by the arrival of a lurking and particularly vocal Barn owl, calls into question the stability of their friendships. Each woman interrupts the owl’s presence with a different lens - Becca is adamant the owl is just an owl, Emily finds peace in the bird’s company, and Elena worries the owl is in fact La Lechuza, a witch from Mexican folklore, here to punish Becca for her affair with a married man. The play exists in that special time at night where reality brushes with myth, magic, fable, and faith and explores the phase of late, young adulthood where your found family is the precipice of disintegration.

Cast: 
EMILY, female, white, twenty-seven ELENA, female, Latina, twenty-eight BECCA, female, twenty-nine JOHN, late 40s, more a silhouette than a character