Short, bizarre, and more than a little unsettling, Beck's play paints a world that continues to haunt the reader beyond its ending. The world is just nonspecific yet strikingly familiar enough to allow for a great amount of creativity on any designer or director's end. Could easily be executed on any kind of budget in any kind of space, as it is this fundamentally human story about the attempt to exist in a hostile world that drives the piece home.

What a play to read during a time where there are fires literally everywhere just outside my home. What I enjoyed the most about Beck's play is that the stakes felt high, creating a sense of real urgency from start to finish. The story depicts environmental disasters with dark humor and poetry to help punctuate the tragedy of the situation. If you're looking for a short play about climate change and how it affects us all, this is it.

This is a delightful burst of absurdist tragedy. Filled with fatigued health care workers and Shakespeare-quoting, verse-speaking vagrants, Beck’s play pulses with a dark, wry humor, briskly plunging the audience into a vast, completely realized world that, while fantastical, is but a mirror image of our own. In just under twenty pages, not a single line of dialogue or stage direction is wasted, and Beck’s poem of a dying society is a true treat to read. I would love to hear and see it on a stage.