The writer/ editor Gordon Lish used to say, riffing off a groaner of a joke, “Everyone has to be somewhere.” For characters in isolation in a new play inspired by the moment, Felt Sad, Posted a Frog (and other streams of global quarantine), the location is all over the place. That, of course, is the point. We are all there, be it Belgrade, Buenos Aires, Bucharest or Berlin. An interweaving of streams by six playwrights—Iva Brdar, Jorgelina Cerritos, Rebekka Kricheldorf, Santiago Loza, Saviana Stanescu, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon—this work glimpses others in their sequestered locales, their loneliness, creativity, frustration, fear presented up close the way we are experiencing others these days—only, this is a work of theater, and like it or not, we’re in it.

A Cherry Artists Collective production, online until May 9, Felt Sad, offers advice: How to communicate online, prevent loneliness, meditate, make masks and tortilla dough, have a Zoom birthday party, wait. Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy the Silence,” the classic “Swing Low Sweet Chariot,” and Bobby Ferrin’s “Be Happy Don’t Worry” are heard on the soundtrack. For how to take a walk, the speaker says, “I don’t know how to walk on water,” as if any one of us might come up with the miraculous. Suggesting readings from Passoa and Casanova’s Journals, the latter a source of great envy, the speaker hits a nerve. Yeah, who can or would carouse around now? And, wouldn’t it be grand to have that choice? See bit.ly/FeltSadPostedAFrogTix