The Zero Hour

Rebecca and her chronically unemployed butch girlfriend O have created a happy nest in their run-down walk-up in Queens but things are starting to unravel. The more O pushes Rebecca to stop hiding their relationship the more Rebecca's work life--writing a textbook for seventh graders about the Holocaust--begins to bleed into her personal life: She starts meeting World War II Nazis on the 7 train passing as hipster professionals in New York City but hungry to come out about who they really are. Back home in Queens O is also sparring with convincingly real visions: her long estranged--and recently dead?--mother keeps showing up to argue with her about her choices. This almost-love story explores the relationship between honesty and cruelty: How do you tell the truth about yourself when that truth might devastate the people you love? A tour-de-force for two actors playing eight different roles--Page 4 of cover