Directed by Steve Hart, these two pieces juxtaposed two very different types of relationships.

Gruesome Playground Injuries

by Rajiv Joseph

Charting the intersections of two lives over the course of 30 years, the manipulations of their relationship, and the cumulative damage of the wounds inflicted, intimacy may never have looked so familiar.

Danny and the Deep Blue Sea

by John Patrick Shanley

The setting is a rundown bar in the Bronx, where two of society's rejects, Danny and Roberta, strike up a halting conversation over their beer. He is a brooding, self-loathing young man who resorts more to violence than reason; she is a divorced, guilt-ridden young woman whose troubled teenage son is now being cared for by her parents.

Photography by Izzy Manaloto