I really enjoyed a lot about this. I've always felt kaiju could be used as a more powerful metaphor and engine for storytelling and are unfairly dismissed as genre goofiness. this play takes them seriously and uses some fascinating structural elements to do so.

Starts with an image that takes an iconic monster movie elements and not just twists them, but makes them something wholly different. The gigantic characters discuss humanity from a perspective distant and removed, and they build to these funny, awkward, intimate moments I'd never imagine seeing in a kaiju story. The second act, meanwhile, contains just about everything I ever wanted to say about talkbacks, and by comparison made me yearn for the primal energy of the big stompy monsters over the human pretensions on display... and Caffrey does not disappoint.