Jump It is a play about cars breaking down, tow trucks and broken hearts.
In this 3-person play, Stu runs a tow truck company. It’s not much, but it’s something. Then Wendy appears, an old high school crush who dated his older brother Ray. She needs a jump—her idiot husband drained the car battery. Stu fixes her car and begins to rekindle an old flame, complicated by old rivalries with Ray and his own personal demons. This triangle play forces the characters to confront their past selves, and asks the questions: are we destined to repeat old patterns? Can we ever change? This play also explores issues of mental health, specifically depression and the ways that childhood trauma affects our sense of hope and resilience. Issues of mental health and illness are of particular interest to the playwright, Phoebe Farber, who is a clinical therapist with a private practice in Montclair, New Jersey. She has worked with adolescents and adults for over 20 years and is a professor at Montclair State University.
Jump It began as a 10-minute play, and was first seen as a reading at Fresh Produced Reading series in NYC. The short version of Jump It was next seen in The Aery Theatre Festival in Garrison, NY (Finalist) in 2014, and then was subsequently produced by Everyday Inferno Theatre Company in NYC. In 2015, the full-length version of Jump It received a workshop production at Luna Stage in West Orange, New Jersey.
In this 3-person play, Stu runs a tow truck company. It’s not much, but it’s something. Then Wendy appears, an old high school crush who dated his older brother Ray. She needs a jump—her idiot husband drained the car battery. Stu fixes her car and begins to rekindle an old flame, complicated by old rivalries with Ray and his own personal demons. This triangle play forces the characters to confront their past selves, and asks the questions: are we destined to repeat old patterns? Can we ever change? This play also explores issues of mental health, specifically depression and the ways that childhood trauma affects our sense of hope and resilience. Issues of mental health and illness are of particular interest to the playwright, Phoebe Farber, who is a clinical therapist with a private practice in Montclair, New Jersey. She has worked with adolescents and adults for over 20 years and is a professor at Montclair State University.
Jump It began as a 10-minute play, and was first seen as a reading at Fresh Produced Reading series in NYC. The short version of Jump It was next seen in The Aery Theatre Festival in Garrison, NY (Finalist) in 2014, and then was subsequently produced by Everyday Inferno Theatre Company in NYC. In 2015, the full-length version of Jump It received a workshop production at Luna Stage in West Orange, New Jersey.