Mm.

'Cause you...

I see them on a daily basis, and then you watch, like, the next year, they're like, "Oh, I have a place now." And that really spoke to me in the sense of, like, just our current climate of things being taken away from a community just to live, and I think that feels so present.

Because even though, yeah, I've worked at the Exit for 15 years, I feel that these communities like Spo- Splot haven't changed, or they go through these waves where history does repeat itself.

And what are we gonna do? And I think that is, that is what is happening in this play that speaks to a community, is that even though we can equate it to times in the past because of how history repeats itself, I think that those two last lines are like, "Okay, we keep doing this-"

Of course, yeah

... from Ocean.

And so, yeah, because this play is a solo play, I really wanted to create a, an ensemble to support it, to a collaborative ensemble to support her, especially Alysia.