Bright Half Life

Taking place over a 45-year period, the play thoughtfully explores the stages of a relationship between two lesbians. In a non-linear way, the audience comes to understand how the two very different women met and married, how they lived as a couple, and how their lives circled each other, both in and out of that relationship. The New Yorker says, “Most relationships develop in one of two ways — they endure or they don’t. Ms. Barfield’s variegated structure complicates this simple either/or, showing the volatility in a long-term partnership, the joy and desolation, the hurt and help — all intermingled, all at once…”