Written by up-and-coming playwright Onyi Okoli, one-act comedy Trynna Be A Playa But Don’t Know How To Play The Game is taking us back to the hilariously messy world of early-2000s college dating, complete with AIM away messages and Sidekick flip phones. Set in the early-aughts “where college life was still like A Different World and dating was a little like Two Can Play That Game,” the show centers on four freshmen students as they navigate their new lives at university, and the new romantic entanglements that pop up along the way.
Trynna Be A Playa will premiere at Dixon Place in the Bowery for a three-day run with six performances, from Thursday, May 1 to Saturday May 3, with seatings at 7pm and 9pm.