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OFFICIAL #HFF25 PRESS REVIEW BY GIA ON THE MOVE: 5 STARS!

Until Death

June 12, 2025
by Naomi Farkas
UNTIL DEATH at the 2025 Hollywood Fringe Festival.

Nalini Sharma’s, UNTIL DEATH, follows the wonderfully weird journey of a bat trapped in a hospital. Along the way, the audience is invited to peek into the pains and joys and losses that make up the patients, and loved ones who call the hospital their temporary home.

Until Death is riveting. It’s impossible to look away. Even at its most abstract, it was engaging and exciting. It’s a whooly original play. Even the parts that didn’t quite work were so out of the box and interesting, that you couldn’t help but root for them. This not-so-solo-show will constantly keep you guessing. But with every shocking twist and turn, there is a kernel of very real and very human truth.

Nestled within the play’s absurd and zany characters and situations is a strangely touching story of loss and mortality. It’s a confrontation of life and death told from the point of view of an enigmatic and original protagonist– the bat herself. It’s a story that is as heartbreaking as it is ridiculous.

For those willing to take a step into the unknown, it’s a play that will sit with you for a long time to come. UNTIL DEALTH kept me engaged and guessing, with some of the most original and surprising audience-participation that I’ve seen in a while.

Written and performed by Nalini Sharma. Directed by Bente Engelstoft. With Hannah Levin and Mike Rose.