Years to the Day at Carnegie Stage

David Whalen and Dihlon McManne star in "Years to the Day" by Allen Barton.

"Brilliant... Riveting... a devastating and hilarious dissection of friendship." Theatre Spoken Here

"A social satire that's simply George Bernard Shaw for the 21st century....it's about its text, about life crises and self absorbtion and desperate comic loneliness. It's a very smart play, an hour and a half of delight." LA WEEKLY

Two old friends meet for coffee — it’s been eight years to the day since their last in-person meeting. What unfolds is an 80-minute single conversation between them, where the topics of friendship, family, marriage, health, kids and politics intertwine to make them question the nature of friendship, and whether the bond they made in the first week of college can withstand the increasing stress of different opinions across all those topics. Have the intervening years made them more tolerant of these different views? Or have they become calcified under a form of “maturity” that would say, “There are some opinions that simply cannot be tolerated anymore”?