Best Intentions premiered at the Pittsburgh Fringe Festival before traveling to London, UK and finally ending up at the Edinburgh fringe festival in the summer of 2016. “We always wanted this production to come home to Cleveland where it was conceived, but we knew when we did it that we wanted to make some changes” said O’Keefe.

As Shakespeare would say, what’s in a name?  To start us off, O’Keefe changed the name from Best Intentions to Aim’d so near she felt this title better reflected the characters desires despite their imperfections. Since the last production, O’Keefe also re-looked at the script to attempt to give the characters more of a resolution. She says, “You can only be in purgatory for so long before you finally decide – okay how do I move on from here”.

And so in 2019 Shark Eat Muffin Theatre Co. presents Aim’d so near as part of the inaugural Borderlight Fringe Festival in Cleveland OH in July 2019.

Two spirited women…a locked room…a tape recorder…and a kitten puzzle. Have these women met before? Why do their stories echo each other? With only a hazy recollection of the past while stuck in a mysterious location, secrets creep out and feelings of guilt and confusion bubble to the surface. As they mine their memories, well-to-do Army wife Emilia and live-in nanny Angelica discover the common flaws that landed them in this shared prison. Based upon significant and courageous — but often overlooked — characters from William Shakespeare’s classic dramas Othello and Romeo and Juliet, this play’s heroines uncover the misconceptions, guesses, and decisions that caused harm to the other ladies in their stories. Will accepting past sins free these women from confinement? Or are these assumptions and close calls how these women Aim’d so near?