Same

People say, “Friends are the family you choose”.

But where do you turn when family and friends just aren’t enough?

In a society where men’s mental health is still so far from the forefront, what happens to men, particularly men of color, when their pain becomes voiceless and the walls are closing in? James and Lewis are best mates. Bonded by the missing pieces of their upbringing, they have become each other’s support. Together they have helped each other deal with every day struggles and heartbreaking loss. But when a letter is found and a decades-old truth is exposed, that bond is tested. Can the brotherhood they have created, the family they chose, survive?

Same is a play about the battles others can’t see. We all need help sometimes, but what is the cost of being too afraid to ask? Is it possible, no matter what we look like on the surface or how different our backgrounds, culture, or way of life may seem – the pain we so often feel, the internal struggles that can either bring us together, or tear us apart, just might be, ultimately, the same?