Ali MacLean’s new play about love, class warfare, and opioids in Massachusetts, opened EST/LA’s Winterfest Festival of Plays last week, as the Pick of the Playwrights Unit.
Starring Ashley Denise Robinson as the Co-ed, Abby, Michael King as Lugo the local drug kingpin, Greg Winter as the hapless Scanlan, Brent Morin as the heartsick Murph, and MacLean as drug addict Teenie.
The play also featured Spencer Garrett as Arthur, Abby’s father, Judy Louise Johnson as her mother Joyce, Lauren Campedelli and Clayton Frey as Scanlan’s bosses, and William Duffy as Detective Fogerty.
Based on a true story about a murder in the woods amongst friends, and people and places MacLean knew in Massachusetts, THE POINT is a dark thriller that follows a love quadrangle between a college student, a townie drug pusher, his junkie ex-girlfriend, and the hapless friend in love with the co-ed.
The tension mounts when one of them is found dead. The story, told out of sequence, follows the aftermath of the death, but on a macro level it examines the rise of economic inequity along with corresponding opioid deaths.
The story takes place in Holyoke Massachusetts, which has had the highest rate of pregnancies and STDs, and the largest heroin and Fentanyl trade in the New England area in 2023.
For more information about the play or to download it, visit: https://newplayexchange.org/plays/3233693/point-full-length-play
ALI MacLEAN 