Sickles challenges our perception of time and space, our understanding of character and motivation, equally disturbs and tintillates us. And he does this all while exploring this with a captivating structure with an evocative theatricality, developing his characters through an intersectionality of issues like homophobia and racism. It's a truthful piece about neurodivergence and queerness and sexuality that our theatre definitly needs.

[11/12/2024] Some love stories are sad, some love stories are trippy. Some love stories deliver a poignant, evocative illustration of neurodivergence within a story of mid-life crisis navigating racism and homophobia. Sickles has managed to do all of this in SEASIDE TRAGEDIES. Of the many things to love about this script, Scott is a writer who has proven he knows the rules of playwriting intimately, and earns the reader's implicit trust to dive deeper with him as he delightfully breaks them.

Riveting and incantory, this play takes us deep into one man's experience living with ADHD, long Covid, and bigotry. His experience is vividly depicted, as are the characters who surround him in both his real and hallucinatory worlds. So much of this play left me breathless and in awe of its bracing theatricality.