Fifteen-year-old Anna's weight makes her a target for bullies. When her mom transfers Anna to the school where she teaches in order to protect her daughter, it only makes things worse. If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet is an entertaining look at a regular family stuck somewhere between knowing what the problem is... and doing something about it.
What is the Story of If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet?
Set in London, If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet follows Anna, a 15-year-old girl who is constantly getting into trouble at school. Anna is targeted for her weight, and although she retaliates against her bullies, she usually ends up in the principal’s office. Anna’s parents are no help—her mother, who teaches at her school, only makes matters worse, while her writer father is so distracted with his new book about reducing carbon footprints that he has no time for anything else. When Anna’s outspoken, out-of-control Uncle Terry comes for an unexpected visit, he becomes an unlikely friend and confidante. But Terry’s counsel isn’t always the best advice for a young teenager, causing an even larger rift between the misunderstood Anna and her family.
"Without leaking too many details, wonderfully unexpected things happen with water and props in director Michael Longhurst’s exciting, inventive staging."
Associated Press
Mark Kennedy
"Amiable, scruffy, erratic, well-intentioned, full of promise and self-sabotaging—such is the nature of Terry, the stoner character with which the movie star Jake Gyllenhaal has chosen to make his very creditable New York stage debut."
The New York Times
Ben Brantley
"[Jake Gyllenhaal] is touching, funny and completely convincing as Uncle Terry, a scruffy man-boy chronically adrift, profane, bad with boundaries, but with a good heart. "
New York Daily News
Joe Dziemianowicz