ABSTRACT
Two weeks ago, we took a trip to New York City. While we were there, we saw a play by Eric Bogosian called Suburbia. The set of the play is a convenience store parking lot, and the play concerns the lives of the young adults who hang out in the parking lot. The kids are directionless. Their various searches for meaning involve a bit of shallow political talk, based on uncompleted community college courses, drugs and alcohol, discussing their ambivalent relationship with a former friend turned rock star, and dabbling in feminist performance art. Hanging out in the parking lot is punctuated by various appearances of the Pakistani convenience store manager, who is working while putting himself through engineering school.
