Broken bones, missed connections: Love leaves a mark at Theatre Exile

💌 Love Philly? So do we. Let’s be friends. Sign up for the Billy Penn newsletter today. “Gruesome Playground Injuries” opens when Kayleen and Doug meet not-quite-cute at age 8. Both are in the playground. Both are injured. He rode his bicycle off the roof; her tummy hurts. “It’s as much about the broken hearts as the broken bones,” said Deborah Block, Theatre Exile’s producing artistic director. In “Gruesome Playground Injuries,” playwright Rajiv Joseph “manifests all of our emotional pain physically. It’s fun and a little bloody and a little naughty.” You gotta love the title: “Gruesome Playground Injuries.” Who can resist? But Block has many other reasons for why the South Philadelphia theater company, now celebrating its 30th anniversary, decided to remount “Gruesome Playground Injuries,” which it first staged in 2011. “One reason we love this play is that it’s a love story turned inside out,” said Block, who is also directing the production. Jenna Kuerzi a