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Welcome to The Last Five Years! That seems like a funny thing to say, almost sardonic, considering the last few years we’ve all lived. COVID-19 has redefined the theatre, relationships, and the passage of time itself. This past year felt like we began in hope, flirted with whiplash as we lurched from month to month, and then shuttered to a halt. Breakups, hookups, divorces, engagements: even if you haven’t been affected yourself, you’ve undoubtedly heard stories. 

This modern musical ingeniously chronicles the five-year relationship of a marriage from meeting to breakup and from breakup to meeting. Each side of the story is enacted separately and in opposite chronological order. The characters are so close and yet so far away. Isolated. Reaching for connection. Sound familiar? 

We have been climbing uphill, floundering; millions of thoughts racing through our heads as the shadow of COVID-19 still looms. Where is the drive? How do we overcome these feelings of isolation? Can we just turn the clock back and go back to before? Unfortunately, no, you can’t turn back the clock and be taken back all those years. However, you can wind it up again. 

There are magical moments in our life we want to last forever. We want the first kiss to last longer. We want the next ten minutes of the wedding to last a lifetime. The impermanence of these moments feels unfair. Things move too fast. Yet, in the purgatory of the pandemic, it feels like time doesn’t pass at all. For the next 90 minutes, we hope you can live in this moment with Cathy and Jamie. Let go of the past, forget about tomorrow, and enjoy the show!

Julie McCluskey and Drew Davidson

Executive Director & Artistic Director