French Defense

A 3-act play, French Defense, uses a fictional New Orleans chess club as its primary setting to explore reality, perception, and truth through dialogue-driven scenes and a series of chess matches. The play uses chess matches as its central metaphor, with their moves and openings mirroring the characters' psychological conflicts, strategic choices, and shifting power dynamics.

The story centers on troubled characters grappling with trauma, addiction, paranoia, and fractured relationships, cre...