How Can Say This So You Will Stay is a fantastical journey through the research of Dr. Amy Damrow and Dr. Jaqueline Sweeney. The play follows a group of student teachers thrust into an academic study on the difficult dialogues we try to avoid in life with those who hold different ideological space than we do. As the students delve into topics ranging form Black Lives Matter to the contentious 2016 election the ways their politicized identities play out in their everyday life become clearer to them and those around them. The questions of who are really and the tension that creates with the world around us come to the forefront? Do we stay in the room with that tension or do we leave? How can we stay?