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Benches is a coming-of-age, two-person poetic play on love, loss, and what it means for some stories to stay with us forever.
"here along Casuarina trees,
there will always be benches
stories of traffic and twilight
intersecting
if you place your ears on them
they will tell you how many miles
people have run, hours slept and hearts broken
but I will just look out today and see forever."
A girl, in search for her identity, returns to the park that her grandfather used to take her to when he was still alive. He appears, and together they embark on a journey spanning five decades, meeting faces both old and new along the way, sharing tales that become an allegory to her future.