MONTAUK

Some wounds don’t heal. Some things can never be forgotten.

A love story perfumed with an air of apocalypse, MONTAUK takes place over the course of a single night. Within the dimly lit dining room of a two-storey house resting on a cliff overlooking the Atlantic, K and S, two twenty-somethings, struggle to communicate over poorly heated leftovers, their awkward pauses punctuated by yelps from their mini-schnauzer Ava. They’ve been drifting apart for months and both sense suffocating routine haunting their every miscommunicated intention. Existential dread comes suddenly as the thump of a car crashing into a tree on their front lawn jolts the women from mundanity into a chilling reality where a multi-hued alien traveler, wanting nothing more than to plunge their world into a suffocating silence, awaits them.

Presented in three pieces, titled SISYPHUS, ixion, and TaNtAlUs, MONTAUK draws inspiration from these Greek mythological figures to examine mental illness, betrayal, the futility in feeling seen, and how loss moulds us into people we never thought we’d become.

MONTAUK begs the following: What do we hold on to, where do we turn, and who do we become when we sense our looming, inescapable annihilation?

Writing Period: 10/2021 - 10/2023

Publication Date: ?

Cover: Matea Radic

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