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* GriefInducedSplit: Caroline's parents split up from the stress of their daughter's severe illness. [[DisappearedDad She hasn't seen her father in months]] and is bitter because she sees how much her mother misses him.
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* GriefInducedSplit: Caroline's parents split up from the stress of their daughter's severe illness. [[DisappearedDad She hasn't seen her father in months]] and is bitter because she sees how much her mother misses him.
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* GriefInducedSplit: Caroline's parents split up from the stress of their daughter's severe illness. [[DisappearedDad She hasn't seen her father in months]] and is bitter because she sees how much her mother misses him.
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* DelicateAndSickly: Discussed and Defied. Caroline purposefully cultivates a hostile, sardonic demeanor to stop people from treating her as a helpless waif rather than a regular teenage girl. While she does have a hidden softer side, she never never loses her bite.
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* IllGirl: Discussed and Defied. Caroline purposefully cultivates a hostile, sardonic demeanor to stop people from treating her as a helpless waif rather than a regular teenage girl. While she does have a hidden softer side, she never never loses her bite.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Anthony genuinely loves jazz music and poetry, and his attempts to explain why to Caroline are both extremely dorky and extremely sweet, especially when she plays along and he gets so swept up in happiness that he forgets all about the homework project.
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* TheAce: Discussed. Caroline accuses Anthony of being "the perfect son", pointing out that he's popular in school, gets good grades, is a member of the basketball team as well as a saxophone player, and is a lover of poetry and jazz music. He argues against her, pointing out that people liking him doesn't mean that he's a perfect person and sharing some of his flaws.
* {{Adorkable}}: Anthony genuinely loves jazz music and poetry, and his attempts to explain why to Caroline are both extremely dorky and extremely sweet, especially when she plays along and he gets so swept up in happiness that he forgets all about the homework project.
* {{Adorkable}}: Anthony genuinely loves jazz music and poetry, and his attempts to explain why to Caroline are both extremely dorky and extremely sweet, especially when she plays along and he gets so swept up in happiness that he forgets all about the homework project.
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* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:While under for a liver transplant.]]
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* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:While under for a Played with. At the end of the play Anthony reveals [[spoiler: none of the play has physically happened. He was the boy he talked about earlier who died on the basketball court, and his liver transplant.is a match for Caroline. She's been unconscious as it was transferred to her, and this was Anthony's final effort to both meet and say goodbye to her as he wasn't able to in life.]]
* AmbiguouslyGay: Anthony and Caroline argue over whether Walter Whitman was gay, with Anthony saying that he obviously was and Caroline arguing that he wasn't.
* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: It's not revealed until the very end of the play, but the boy Anthony saw at his basket ball game [[spoiler: was actually him; Caroline has been unconscious and speaking with his ghost the entire time.]]
* AmbiguouslyGay: Anthony and Caroline argue over whether Walter Whitman was gay, with Anthony saying that he obviously was and Caroline arguing that he wasn't.
* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: It's not revealed until the very end of the play, but the boy Anthony saw at his basket ball game [[spoiler: was actually him; Caroline has been unconscious and speaking with his ghost the entire time.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: The malfunctioning smoke detector.
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Anthony.]]
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Anthony.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: Despite sharing a kiss and finding mutual understanding with each other, Anthony and Caroline will likely never see each other again since [[spoiler: he's dead, and never got the chance to actually go to her house to meet her.]] However, Caroline finally gets the liver transplant she desperately needs and her health can finally recover, allowing her to see the world the way she dreamed of while she spent months if not years confined to her house due to her illness. While she'll never see Anthony again, it's strongly implied she'll always remember him and that she gave him the closure he needed to move on.
* CameraFiend: Though she uses her phone camera rather than a professional one, Caroline startles Anthony at several points by suddenly taking photos of him while they're talking. She happily explains that she hopes to be a professional photographer someday, and when he sees the photographs Anthony admits she has a natural talent for it.
* ChekhovsGun: The malfunctioning smokedetector.
detector. [[spoiler: It's actually the noise of the various monitors Caroline is hooked up to while she undergoes surgery.]]
* DeadAllAlong:[[spoiler:Anthony.One of the main twists in the play is that [[spoiler: Anthony is a ghost, having died earlier that day during his basketball game.]]
* DeathOfAChild: The characters discuss the trauma of witnessing the death of a boy at Anthony's basketball game at several points, and try to process their own feelings about life if someone so young and seemingly healthy could die so suddenly.
* DisappearedDad: Caroline's parents are separating due to the stress her illness put on their marriage, and she hasn't seen or heard from her dad in months. She's fairly bitter about it, though mostly because she can see how much her mom misses him.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Caroline hates how gently people treat her due to her probably-terminal illness, saying that it's fake kindness rather than people actually getting to know her and really care about her. At several points in the play she orders Anthony to leave when she thinks he's being nice to her out of pity.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are several hints long before the reveal that [[spoiler: the characters aren't actually in Caroline's room and that Anthony is dead]].
** The fire alarm that goes off at several points makes the sounds of [[spoiler: a hospital monitor]] rather than an actual fire alarm.
** Caroline's usually-attentive mother never responds to her texts, despite giving Anthony cookies on his way in and directing him to Caroline's room.
** Anthony's extreme distress when Caroline wants to go check social media about what happened at the basketball court at first seems like a response to the trauma of seeing it happen, [[spoiler: though the fact that it was a video of his own death was also probably a factor.]]
* CameraFiend: Though she uses her phone camera rather than a professional one, Caroline startles Anthony at several points by suddenly taking photos of him while they're talking. She happily explains that she hopes to be a professional photographer someday, and when he sees the photographs Anthony admits she has a natural talent for it.
* ChekhovsGun: The malfunctioning smoke
* DeadAllAlong:
* DeathOfAChild: The characters discuss the trauma of witnessing the death of a boy at Anthony's basketball game at several points, and try to process their own feelings about life if someone so young and seemingly healthy could die so suddenly.
* DisappearedDad: Caroline's parents are separating due to the stress her illness put on their marriage, and she hasn't seen or heard from her dad in months. She's fairly bitter about it, though mostly because she can see how much her mom misses him.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Caroline hates how gently people treat her due to her probably-terminal illness, saying that it's fake kindness rather than people actually getting to know her and really care about her. At several points in the play she orders Anthony to leave when she thinks he's being nice to her out of pity.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are several hints long before the reveal that [[spoiler: the characters aren't actually in Caroline's room and that Anthony is dead]].
** The fire alarm that goes off at several points makes the sounds of [[spoiler: a hospital monitor]] rather than an actual fire alarm.
** Caroline's usually-attentive mother never responds to her texts, despite giving Anthony cookies on his way in and directing him to Caroline's room.
** Anthony's extreme distress when Caroline wants to go check social media about what happened at the basketball court at first seems like a response to the trauma of seeing it happen, [[spoiler: though the fact that it was a video of his own death was also probably a factor.]]
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* IllGirl: Caroline needs a liver transplant.
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* IllGirl: Discussed and Defied. Caroline needs purposefully cultivates a liver transplant.
hostile, sardonic demeanor to stop people from treating her as a helpless waif rather than a regular teenage girl. While she does have a hidden softer side, she never never loses her bite.
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* ParentalAbandonment: Caroline's dad left her mother because of Caroline's illness.
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* ParentalAbandonment: Caroline's dad left MinimalistCast: There are only two characters in the play, Caroline and Anthony. Other people are mentioned but never appear or are heard.
* TheNapoleon: Caroline is short enough to need a stepladder to get things off hermother because of Caroline's illness.own shelves, and before she warms up to Anthony is overflowing with pushiness and belligerence. Anthony outright asks her to lay off the "small dog rage".
* TheNapoleon: Caroline is short enough to need a stepladder to get things off her
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Caroline is horrified when she learns that the parents of the teenage boy who died at the basketball game were there and probably saw their son die, unable to help him. Anthony says he doesn't know for sure, but he thought he heard the boy's dad as he left the game.
* ParentalAbandonment: Caroline's dad left her mother because of Caroline's illness.
* PhoneaholicTeenager: Because Caroline is too sick to leave the house, she's grown to depend on her phone to let her stay connected to things outside her house. It's pointed out that when she actually gets to interact with people in person she uses her phone as a way to keep them at a distance, for instance being more preoccupied with friending Anthony on Facebook than his attempts to actually befriend her.
* StylisticSuck: Anthony's poster presentation for his project is so awful that when Caroline sees it she feels compelled to help out of sheer pity. Only partly justified by the fact that he put it off until the last minute, and the fact that Anthony admits that while he was working on it he realized he might be colorblind.
* TalkingInYourDreams: Anthony reveals to Caroline at the end of the play that [[spoiler: this is how they've been interacting the whole time: he's dead and she's been unconscious the whole play.]]
* ThereAreNoTherapists: No one stopped Anthony from leaving a basketball game where he witnessed another boy die in front of him and going straight to go work on a homework assignment. Even Caroline points out he should probably be with someone or talk to someone about it to help him deal with the trauma. [[spoiler: It turns out that the reason no one tried to reach out to him afterwards was that ''he'' was the dead boy.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: Caroline's dad left her mother because of Caroline's illness.
* PhoneaholicTeenager: Because Caroline is too sick to leave the house, she's grown to depend on her phone to let her stay connected to things outside her house. It's pointed out that when she actually gets to interact with people in person she uses her phone as a way to keep them at a distance, for instance being more preoccupied with friending Anthony on Facebook than his attempts to actually befriend her.
* StylisticSuck: Anthony's poster presentation for his project is so awful that when Caroline sees it she feels compelled to help out of sheer pity. Only partly justified by the fact that he put it off until the last minute, and the fact that Anthony admits that while he was working on it he realized he might be colorblind.
* TalkingInYourDreams: Anthony reveals to Caroline at the end of the play that [[spoiler: this is how they've been interacting the whole time: he's dead and she's been unconscious the whole play.]]
* ThereAreNoTherapists: No one stopped Anthony from leaving a basketball game where he witnessed another boy die in front of him and going straight to go work on a homework assignment. Even Caroline points out he should probably be with someone or talk to someone about it to help him deal with the trauma. [[spoiler: It turns out that the reason no one tried to reach out to him afterwards was that ''he'' was the dead boy.]]
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One afternoon, Anthony arrives unexpectedly at classmate Caroline's door bearing a beat-up copy of Walt Whitman's ''Literature/LeavesOfGrass'', an urgent assignment from their English teacher. Homebound due to illness, Caroline hasn't been to school in months, but she is as quick and sardonic as Anthony is athletic, sensitive, and popular. As these two let down their guards and share their secrets, this seemingly mundane poetry project unlocks a much deeper mystery that has brought them together.
''I and You'' is a one-act play by Lauren Gunderson. It won the 2014 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, and was a finalist for the 2014 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
''I and You'' is a one-act play by Lauren Gunderson. It won the 2014 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, and was a finalist for the 2014 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
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''I and You'' is a
The play centers around high-school basketball player Anthony's attempt to enlist his classmate Caroline to help him complete his English assignment on Creator/WaltWhitman's book ''Literature/LeavesOfGrass'' which he'd put off until the day before it was due. Caroline hasn't physically been to school in months due her failing liver, but due to her determination to finish school as normal Anthony is eventually able to persuade her to at least hear him out.
While Caroline is hostile and short-tempered, it quickly becomes apparent that she hasn't been able to interact with anyone but her mom and her doctors for longer than she cares to discuss, and that the stress of managing not only her rapidly declining health but her family's grief about it is wearing her down. As they work together the two slowly open up to other about their dreams and fears, as well as a private grief of his own that Anthony is carrying.
It won the 2014 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, and was a finalist for the 2014 Susan Smith Blackburn
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One afternoon, Anthony arrives unexpectedly at classmate Caroline's door bearing a beat-up copy of Walt Whitman's ''LeavesOfGrass'', an urgent assignment from their English teacher. Homebound due to illness, Caroline hasn't been to school in months, but she is as quick and sardonic as Anthony is athletic, sensitive, and popular. As these two let down their guards and share their secrets, this seemingly mundane poetry project unlocks a much deeper mystery that has brought them together.
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One afternoon, Anthony arrives unexpectedly at classmate Caroline's door bearing a beat-up copy of Walt Whitman's ''LeavesOfGrass'', ''Literature/LeavesOfGrass'', an urgent assignment from their English teacher. Homebound due to illness, Caroline hasn't been to school in months, but she is as quick and sardonic as Anthony is athletic, sensitive, and popular. As these two let down their guards and share their secrets, this seemingly mundane poetry project unlocks a much deeper mystery that has brought them together.
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* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Casting directions specifically call for Anthony and Caroline to be of different races. Dialogue pins Caroline as White. The most common outcome, therefore, is this trope.
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* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Casting directions specifically call for Anthony and Caroline to be of different races. Dialogue pins Caroline as White. The most common outcome, therefore, is this trope.
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* [[spoiler:AllJustADream]]: [[spoiler:While under for a liver transplant.]]
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* [[spoiler:AllJustADream]]: AllJustADream: [[spoiler:While under for a liver transplant.]]
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* [[spoiler:DeadAllAlong]]: [[spoiler:Anthony.]]
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One afternoon, Anthony arrives unexpectedly at classmate Caroline's door bearing a beat-up copy of Walt Whitman's ''Leaves of Grass'', an urgent assignment from their English teacher. Homebound due to illness, Caroline hasn't been to school in months, but she is as quick and sardonic as Anthony is athletic, sensitive, and popular. As these two let down their guards and share their secrets, this seemingly mundane poetry project unlocks a much deeper mystery that has brought them together.
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One afternoon, Anthony arrives unexpectedly at classmate Caroline's door bearing a beat-up copy of Walt Whitman's ''Leaves of Grass'', ''LeavesOfGrass'', an urgent assignment from their English teacher. Homebound due to illness, Caroline hasn't been to school in months, but she is as quick and sardonic as Anthony is athletic, sensitive, and popular. As these two let down their guards and share their secrets, this seemingly mundane poetry project unlocks a much deeper mystery that has brought them together.
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One afternoon, Anthony arrives unexpectedly at classmate Caroline's door bearing a beat-up copy of Walt Whitman's ''Leaves of Grass'', an urgent assignment from their English teacher. Homebound due to illness, Caroline hasn't been to school in months, but she is as quick and sardonic as Anthony is athletic, sensitive, and popular. As these two let down their guards and share their secrets, this seemingly mundane poetry project unlocks a much deeper mystery that has brought them together.
''I and You'' is a one-act play by Lauren Gunderson. It won the 2014 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, and was a finalist for the 2014 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
!''I and You'' contains examples of:
* AirGuitar: Caroline plays air piano to "Great Balls of Fire".
* [[spoiler:AllJustADream]]: [[spoiler:While under for a liver transplant.]]
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: "Why aren't you afraid of dying?"
* ChekhovsGun: The malfunctioning smoke detector.
* [[spoiler:DeadAllAlong]]: [[spoiler:Anthony.]]
* HeartbeatSoundtrack: [[spoiler:The malfunctioning smoke detector. It's actually the beeping of life support equipment.]]
* IllGirl: Caroline needs a liver transplant.
* IronicEcho: This quote from "Song of Myself":
-->"You will hardly know who I am or what I mean / But I shall be good health to you nevertheless..."
* ParentalAbandonment: Caroline's dad left her mother because of Caroline's illness.
* TheOner
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Casting directions specifically call for Anthony and Caroline to be of different races. Dialogue pins Caroline as White. The most common outcome, therefore, is this trope.
''I and You'' is a one-act play by Lauren Gunderson. It won the 2014 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, and was a finalist for the 2014 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
!''I and You'' contains examples of:
* AirGuitar: Caroline plays air piano to "Great Balls of Fire".
* [[spoiler:AllJustADream]]: [[spoiler:While under for a liver transplant.]]
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: "Why aren't you afraid of dying?"
* ChekhovsGun: The malfunctioning smoke detector.
* [[spoiler:DeadAllAlong]]: [[spoiler:Anthony.]]
* HeartbeatSoundtrack: [[spoiler:The malfunctioning smoke detector. It's actually the beeping of life support equipment.]]
* IllGirl: Caroline needs a liver transplant.
* IronicEcho: This quote from "Song of Myself":
-->"You will hardly know who I am or what I mean / But I shall be good health to you nevertheless..."
* ParentalAbandonment: Caroline's dad left her mother because of Caroline's illness.
* TheOner
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Casting directions specifically call for Anthony and Caroline to be of different races. Dialogue pins Caroline as White. The most common outcome, therefore, is this trope.
