ALLIANCE

5f, 3m

When the president of a high school GSA unexpectedly steps down, the remaining board members use their identity and relationships to jockey for power.

ALLIANCE is about high school and status and infighting. It’s about cuffing your jeans and listening to girl in red. It’s about twitter discourse. It’s also about the downfall of the left and the dangers of individualism. And, of course, it is about Brittana.

“In “Alliance” [Gillespie is], in a way, writing about a system, a bureaucracy, and the language, both inspired and anodyne that emerges from that system… [This] critique is coming, seemingly, from the inside... It is done with love, I sense, as opposed to contempt, and that makes all of the difference.”
- Andrew Bragen, Playwright