Nocturnes: A Passage of Dreams is a play about grief and love. Their primal intimacy is its story. Nocturnes thinks that what was painfully learned about love and grief in the early 20th century remains troublingly true. Julia Kristeva puts it well: "...the insolence of the Freudian discovery was to show this: there is no love but failed love". Here is to failed love. May we survive it, learn from it, and outlive it.