The Women of Lockerbie by Deborah Brevoort

Highly Recommended. Astute and touching.... full review

Full of moving performances, this piece is a beautiful and melancholy commentary on the different stages of grief and finding the strength to move forward in love.... full review

The show is presented as a Greek tragedy, and very skillfully designed and executed. It brought us, and we’re sure other audience members, to tears, and is the best thing we have seen at Fringe thus far, truly worthy of the Top of the Fringe award.... full review

This show moved me. You might say: it's about parents of a son lost to the infamous PanAm flight 103 bombing in 1988, how could it not move you? The play is written with craft and consideration, personalizing it. One couple, Americans visiting the Scottish town where the wreckage landed, display the distortions grief can work on a marriage, where the one who chooses to be the "rock" denies himself his true feelings, and the other falls further than she might, in balance. And the townspeople -- who ever thought of what they saw? The explosion happened high above, but the wreckage and the bodies landed right where they lived. They too suffer. The grief, the coping, the love of spouse and stranger are all excellently portrayed. There is a touc... full review

Certainly the destruction of PanAm 103 certainly counts as a tragedy. But this play transforms it into a Tragedy (note the capital T), one of the most powerful I've ever seen. Its focus remains squarely not upon the event, which after all lies in the past, but in the aftermath--and by extension such for all the evils, all the pain in the world. Here, during an anniversary event in the Scottish lowlands village where so many died, a New Jersey housewife gives way to her grief. Her husband tries to help, in his tragically (this word applies to so much here) narrow way. They meet the women of this small town who seek permission to be given the clothing of those who died, to wash them in an act of catharsis. What they long for is a way to ... full review

Compelling subject-matter and some outstanding performances.... full review

Such a heartfelt rendition of that play! I was transported instantly to Lockerbie thanks to the beautiful energy that whole cast installed from the start til the end of the show.... full review

Truly and deeply moving. It is hard for words to do justice to the feelings evoked in this piece. Incredibly strong performances, elegant and effective staging, and heartbreaking source material combine into a powerful work of theatre. ... full review

Director Jim Blanchette presents this drama on a suitably stark stage (a tip of the hat to set designer Carrie Ackerman). His cast serves the drama excellently, especially Ed Ackerman as the distraught father of a lost child who is on the verge of losing his wife to grief. A Gold Medal... full review

This show is beautiful and thoughtful and meaningful. Each character representing a aspect of grief while still bringing a fully fleshed out character tonlife. The 3 women of lockerbie are an incredible force of energy sweeping across the stage and creating the flow of story moving us in out and forward from and around greif. I noticed each different person I was with was effected most strongly by a different character in a different moment of grief. When so many people react to different aspects of a show, I think it speaks what a complete world that was created as oppsed to a world created to support one main characters journey. Everything was beautiful. ... full review