Summer L. Williams

The joyful abandon of a friendship between two girls is the heart and soul of the poetic play “The Meeting Tree” by B. Elle Borders, on stage through Aug. 9 in a world-premiere production by Company One Theatre (C1) at the Strand Theatre in Dorchester.

In “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding,” a Tony-nominated play by Jocelyn Bioh running at Speakeasy Stage, the audience spends a day with the stylists and customers at the salon, learning their dreams, their hopes and their fears.

In “Morning, Noon, and Night,” local playwright Kirsten Greenidge tackles post-pandemic emotions through the lens of a mother-daughter relationship. We got through the pandemic, the play posits, but did we get through all the trauma and emotions that came with it?