Aaron Francis

OK. This show is wildly uneven. Some of the acting is below average, a couple are fine. One (Raissa Eckmann Peniche) is wonderful. The actors are Brazilian and doing the play in English is obviously difficult for some, so I'm giving them some slack on performance. The show feels like it's trying to shock rather than trying to tell the story honestly. Some of the actors escape from the forced-shock-value nature of the show and deliver convincing performances, but that doesn't make up for the clunk... full review

This is a smart show. It's brilliantly framed and all of the actors are on stage the whole time, when they're not being used, they're lined up against the back wall plugged into their phones. Except for the one character who only has a flip phone and doesn't know what a hashtag or instagram or twitter is. In fact, for most of the play he's in the back with the others, except he's reading a book. And I don't think it's an accident that his chair is actually a stool, and he's higher than the rest ... full review

Compelling, well acted, well designed, well thought out piece of theater. It gets better the longer it goes on. There is a moment where three things are going on at once, and each is terribly interesting and you have to divide your attention, and it's amazing. I have a few complaints, but it's mostly just my tastes, I wish the play had gone further. The play went pretty far out into surrealism, but once you've gotten on that train, I want to go to the last stop. It has a clear consistent message ... full review

This is a show that you'd expect to see in a theater writing class in high school. The writing is unimaginative, the direction steers away from the drama and anything that may have been compelling in the tired script and the acting is over the top and unbelievable. The trifecta.... full review

Best show of the Fringe. No contest. Go see this show. It will make you want to get up and DO SOMETHING. It will make you want to create or live or take a chance, to break out of the bubble you currently live in. And a great show, that is expertly written, acted, designed and directed that also makes you want to change your life is kind of the best thing you can hope for when going to see a play.... full review

Ryan really is lost. So are the two stars of this show. Completely and utterly lost. And they have no hope of getting found. In fact I suspect they have no interest in being found or saved. It's difficult to tell what is real and what isn't in this hyperreal absurdist new work. Our stars are dealing with troubled pasts and personal demons and hidden secrets and they're all bubbling up now that they realize that they have lost something very important, something good and pure. And the odds are pre... full review