oh, Honey and Inter Alia revolve around the same central premise:

How mothers react when their sons are accused of sexual assault. 

How does a mom cope with unconditionally loving an offspring who may have committed such a heinous act?

In addition, both of these new plays are in conversation with established texts.

oh, Honey falls in the familiar lineage of a Sex and the City set-up, with four ladies habitually meeting at their usual cafe to dish. But what happens when these gals are the aforementioned mothers, brought together because of their shared plight? How do they attempt to socialize normally, all while the abnormal darkness of their existence keeps penetrating their desire to maintain an air of (performative?) normalcy?

And Inter Alia is in a “the-tables-have-turned role reversal” conversation with the prior collaboration by the same creative team: Prima Facie. In that one-woman play, a lawyer who specializes in allowing high-profile rape suspects to dodge justice…finds herself as the victim in one such justice-dodging case. And Inter Alia is about a judge who specializes in prosecuting rape suspects…until her son is the prosecuted suspect. 

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Ugly Face is a fitting name for the theater company behind oh, Honey; the play is about how ugliness shows on faces struggling to process it.

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Inter Alia and Mike Bartlett’s Blood Juniper are new plays about parents wrestling with protecting their children from harm vs. doing what’s right. Do they jeopardize their flesh-and-blood’s physical comfort in the name of greater goods?

To emphasize the youthful innocence of the tykes, both plays end with the image of their younger bodies appearing on stage.