Not Paul at Producers Club

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Not Paul is an absurdist romantic comedy about the worst possible scenario in being compared to your significant others ex. The play centers around a new couple: Mary and Ethan. Mary is Ivy League-educated and a successful academic publisher, while Ethan is a barista with a theology degree, uncertain of what he wants to do with his life. Their budding romance is complicated when Ethan learns of Marys recent ex, Paul, her committed boyfriend of five years. Paul is a perfect man: he was top of his class at Harvard, a gifted singer, a talented actor, delivered speeches to the United Nations about the South Sudan famine, speaks seven languages fluently, and is a sexual god. Even during the action of the play, Paul is saving Ukrainian refugees. As their relationship progresses, Ethan discovers that all the people in Marys life love Paul to the point of obsession. Marys elderly next door neighbor Greta was infatuated with Paul. Marys college friends and recently married couple, Bryce and Stewart, follow the word of Paul. Marys co-worker Sylvia reveals that she is pregnant with Pauls child and her husband, Perry, couldnt be more excited. All of them shamelessly compare Ethan to Paul and display open hostility towards him, causing Ethan to snap, as he begins to question himself and his relationship. Either Ethan takes charge of his own life or Pauls admirers will take matters into their own hands