Review by anonymous
June 29, 2025 certified reviewerWhat I liked
The use of stairs as part of the set felt interesting, and the desk was also a strong fit for a low-budget play- its mess of folders and papers was easily realistic and added to the tension of a certain scene.
There’s also something fun about the idea of a nurse being the protagonist and hero of a piece of fiction- that probably doesn’t happen a lot outside of medical drama shows.
What I didn't like
The poster is misleading in that it features props that don’t exist, and costumes that also don’t exist (as well as a whole extra unknown character). I suspect it’s AI-generated, which is disappointing on multiple levels.
There is also no creature- neither explicitly mentioned, nor strongly implied. Me and the other people I went to see this with don’t agree on who was supposed to be the creature, because it was never brought up in any sense, so it’s hard to guess.
The plot centers around the importance and drama of how terrible the side effects of a certain (fictional) medication are, but for some reason these side effects are “mental illness” instead of something a little more visually interesting and concrete.
(Some propwork or costuming would’ve been fun- this is already sci-fi, so why not lean into it?)
One of those side effects is Dissociative Identity Disorder, which- I know people with that disorder. This is not at all an accurate representation of it, so I’m a little baffled at why the decision was made to represent it at all. My best guess is that it was used so that the actor in question could show off, but it feels in bad taste.
The writing also generally seemed a little lost.
My overall impression
This play felt… strange. And given that at the end the creator mentions his actor training studio by name, it feels a little like this was created mostly to advertise.
Overall, I wish the plot choices were much more dramatic (except for the DID part. Preferably that would be replaced with something else). This seemed too concerned with grounding itself in reality for something called “The Creature.”
