What We Talk When We Talk About Love
A world premiere of Carver's work on stage, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love and Other Modern Dilemmas, is a suite of three one-act plays based on stories from Carver’s posthumous collection, Where I’m Calling From. Each story deals with two couples and the intersecting tensions between them. In "What's in Alaska?" the couples are in their late 20s; In "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love," Carver's most famous and frequently anthologized story, they are in their 30s, and "Put Yourself in My Shoes" concerns a conflict between a couple in their late 30s and one in their 50s. Although the stories were all written in the 1980s, the plays are set in the 70s, 80s, 90s.
