This play revels in high-flying heady debate, history that never feels recited. THREE SCENES IN THE LIFE OF A TROTSKYIST makes for stimulating, illuminating, gleeful drama due to its stellar debaters, Lev and Daniel. The 1939 Scene 1 gets you hooked with its rat-a tat-tat repartee, slogans, and references and the 1980 Scene 3 closes the door on the brilliance Andy Boyd has begun. Can’t remember the last time my mind had this much fun. Amazing rat metaphor on page 50. Read this play! [6-1-26]

This play is structured so well in three scenes the often bitter struggle of factions of the left come to vivid life in crafted arguments and the push and pull of comrades who believe fervently in the cause, just not the exact cause of their other comrades. The second scene has perhaps the most resonance with today's left - the painstaking arguments about access and solidarity with no one really truly listening. Well done. I have to say I listened to the audio version and that was well done.

I really regret not seeing this when it was produced. Boyd brilliantly takes big ideas and organizes them in a way that crafters a wonderful character study. I hope this play gets done all over. Lots of questions are asked in this play. Do people ever really change? I want to see audiences all over grapple with this play and the well-written character of Lev.