RISE

My overall impression

Really strong actors, engaging script, and directing that is just hands-off enough to be able to let these actors play and live in the world they have created. The small amount of fight choreography is especially convincing and effective…terrifying really. You can tell that this ensemble has strengths in that area. And they bring a hell of a lot of heart to the stage.

This show could easily fall into the trap of being extremely one note, but the actors dodge that bullet for the most part and find quite a bit of variation in having almost the same argument for the entire play.
All in all, an extremely strong debut production from this wonderful new company, Zenith Ensemble.