The Women’s Explosive Theatre Company will present the last play of its inaugural season, Naomi Iizuka’s “Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls,” tonight.

The play is an ensemble comedy that focuses on the intertwined lives of 11 characters. It uses cynicism and metaphor to examine everyday problems and issues that face today’s young adults.

“It centers on Vivian, played by Lindsey Carr, after her boyfriend breaks up with her for another girl,” Allyson Morgan, a senior in theater and the director of the production said. “It follows her and her friends as they try to find connection and meaning in their lives.”

The play starts with a short monologue by Vivian.

“My character is ill-fit in every situation,” Carr, a senior in theater said. “She never really knows the right thing to say.”

The play deals with how Vivian forms and ends relationships in her life.

“It’s really interesting how she tries to find her place in the world, literally and in terms of her relationships with other people,” Carr said. “She literally goes from New York to Alaska to find where she fits in the world.”

“I think it’s a good play for us because it speaks to this generation – this time in our lives where everybody is trying to find an identity after graduation,” Morgan said.

WETCo was created in September by Ohio State seniors Lindsey Carr, Katie Miller, Allyson Morgan, Leah Reddy, Amy Tzagournis and Susan Wismar as a way to complete their theater degrees.

“It started as a thesis project and now it’s a semi-professional company,” Morgan said. “All six of us were looking for a distinction project to do for our senior thesis, and we had discussed doing one show together.”

Each of the company’s founders wanted to act and direct, so doing a single show was not going to work.

“It just developed into doing a whole season because one show wasn’t going to fulfill all our needs,” Morgan said.

Morgan said they also had the desire to create their own plays and combined their writing talents to create “See Kate Run,” which they presented in April.

Carr and Wismar will return for another season with WETCo and the company will continue to offer OSU students an outlet for their creativity.

Wismar said that next year the students will be able to draw from the experience of older, more experienced women, who the company will be bringing in as guest directors.

“That will be really great to have – an older generation bringing in what they have instead of all of us who have the same background,” Wismar said. “We’re going to be branching out a little more.”

The remaining founding members have plans to move from Columbus in pursuit of their theater careers.

The show opens at 8 p.m. tonight at The Abbey Theatre in Dublin.

The play runs May 20-23 and May 28-30, and tickets can be reserved by calling the WETCo box office.