It’s not your typical love story when Doug and Kayleen meet at the nurse’s office in their elementary school; she’s got a painful stomach ache, and he’s all banged up from riding his bike off the roof. Over the next thirty years, they find each other again and again, brought together by injury, heartbreak, and their own self-destructive tendencies. Told in an unconventional structure with great compassion and humor by playwright Rajiv Joseph, Gruesome Playground Injuries is a compellingly intimate story that examines the balancing act between the fear of letting all our deepest wounds show and the quest to be fully understood.