Santiago is your average guy going through a mid-20s crisis. He’s massively overworked, massively underpaid, and nursing a massive crush on his supposedly straight roommate (who just so happens to also be his childhood best friend and first boyfriend from before Santiago transitioned).
Santiago also talks to dead people.
Following a near death experience in his teens, Santiago works as a Record Keeper documenting memories of the recently deceased so they can pass on to the afterlife. However, his frequent communions with the dead strain his ability to connect with the living, especially his roommate Isaiah.
“What Remains” is a 90 minute dramedy that investigates how the lives we think we should lead have the power to ruin the ones we actually have.
Content warnings: allusions to suicide, death, allusions to homophobia.
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This production is a part of Frigid NY’s Days of the Dead Festival.
