It’s not the most romantic of settings for a meet cute – Alexis (Hope Lauren) is 90 days sober from heroin and awaiting her discharge from a drug treatment center when junkie Blackie (Daniel Dorr) arrives for his first day.

Immediately, at the outset of Tim Venable‘s powerful new play Baby Foot, which opened at New York’s Off-Broadway Soho Repertory Theater on Saturday, the sparks fly – small talk turns to heavy subjects of life and death that is the daily gamble of heroin addiction. Yet, there might be hope that these two can connect and transcend their addictions.

Lauren and Dorr breathe life into two struggling characters battling their demons and hoping to take their lives back from them.

>WATCH DANIEL DORR’s uINTERVIEW

Baby Foot is now playing at the Soho Repertory Theater through September 2. Get tickets here.

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