Five Mile Lake

A moving portrait of a group of young people, yearning to make the right choices—and facing the choices they have already made—as they journey into their thirties in a rapidly transforming world.

Bonds, a rising East Coast playwright, has a gift for quotidian dialogue with a deep well of subtext. It doesn’t really sound like dialogue. It sounds like the way people talk...Bonds’ most obvious antecedent is Chekhov; in very different cultural contexts, both writers create characters who helplessly reveal their innermost yearnings even, or especially, when they try not to.

—The Los Angeles Times