Clyde’s is particularly interesting because of the risks Lynn Nottage takes with both its form and structure. With five characters on stage for 90 minutes, Nottage writes the play to be as compact and pressurized as possible.
By Divine Angubua /Apr 24, 2026
iPhoto caption: Jasmine Case for Intermission Magazine. Photo by Dahlia Katz. Shot at The George Street Diner.
“She’s a mother who has a child that deals with epilepsy,” says Case. “I grew up with epilepsy. I had a grand mal seizure as a kid. So I have a weird understanding of her relationship to her child.”
Written by Nathaniel Hanula-James, Photography by Dahlia Katz /Mar 26, 2026
iPhoto caption: Dwain Murphy and Virgilia Griffith in 'a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone
(-noun).' Photo by Jae Yang.
a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun): the title says it all, offering a definition for an absent word. The thing is the thing unsaid. For the play’s three couples, language falls short: beautifully, tragically, sublimely.