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The Interrobangers by M Sloth Levine

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  • Aly Kantor:
    3 Mar. 2024
    “ This is a gorgeous coming-of-age romp about cryptids and the people (and fellow cryptids) who love them. The puppets are delightful, the nostalgia is engaging, and the rituals are intricate in this tale of growing up, embracing queerness, and processing trauma and the fallibility of memory. I loved the authenticity of the central friend group, and watching them evolve over the course of the play was a treat. It's campy, funny, heartbreaking, scary, and mysterious, all in two tight hours of larger-than-life, strikingly intimate theatre. ”
  • Lana Scott Stringer:
    8 Feb. 2024
    “ I really enjoyed the ambitious exploration in this story that focuses on the complexities of what it means to be older, but still not adult. Really interesting visual elements that I’d love to see staged. I found myself remarkably invested in the characters after less than 100 pages. ”
  • Jan Rosenberg:
    28 Aug. 2023
    “ Those last few lines gave me a chill. I love this concept-using Scooby Doo tropes to tell a story of a group of teens coming to terms with trauma and their own queerness. I loved Luna's monologue at the end. I'm rooting for these kids. I'm especially rooting for Hoover. ”
  • Shaun Leisher:
    14 May. 2021
    “ I don't know what took me so long to read this play but wow wow wow is it good. It's terrifying and heartbreaking and major mystery both literally and existentially. A wonderful ensemble piece where every actor gets a moment to shine. If anyone decides to give the Riverdale treatment to Scooby-Doo, they better hire M. Sloth Levine!! ”
  • Lizz Mangan:
    12 Apr. 2021
    “ My laughter turned into tears during this incredibly fast paced and creepy spin on nostalgic Scooby Doo tropes. This play is filled with tender friendship, queer love, explorations of trauma and an ambiguity of memory that leave you wishing you could go beyond the last words of the script. For lack of a better pun, this play is a banger. ”
  • Brynn Hambley:
    30 Mar. 2021
    “ This play is poignant, funny as hell, and so relatable to the young queer experience. As a bisexual woman, I was elated at the conversations around queerness that felt like the same ones I had just a few years ago in college. I also loved this sense of mystery, of not knowing what is real, and that maybe we can create our own reality. Love love love this play. If you want to know more, tune into Play-Mates podcast, where I'm analyzing this play on April 9, 2021 :) ”
  • James La Bella:
    9 Mar. 2021
    “ The Interrobangers is a play that screams out for production. Deft, tender, brilliant, and with a runaway theatrical imagination which sparkles with the play's every breath. The kind of piece you pine for long after finishing it. ”
  • Kullen Burnet:
    28 Oct. 2020
    “ The Interrobangers is a fast paced joy/sad ride via surreal vantastic exqueerience’s that explore nostalgia, childhood, and the trauma that haunts its forests into adolescence and definitely beyond. With specific and well rounded characters, expansive spooky collaboration tech wise, and a satiric and sentimental vantage point that loops into an “ending” that’s really the beginning, this play is out of this world groovy! ”
  • Evan Turissini:
    14 Oct. 2020
    “ If you're a theatre that is scratching your head over finding productions to program to attract much sought after millennial/older Gen Z audience members, Sloth Levine has gift-wrapped the solution and laid it in your lap.

    The characters are engaging and distinct right from the get-go. The concepts are complex, heartfelt, and thoughtfully explored but the dialogue never feels stilted. Reading the stage directions from the perspective of a designer, director, or actor makes you feel like a kid in a candy store. ”
  • Nick Malakhow:
    1 Oct. 2019
    “ Sloth Levine has a knack for creating fantastical worlds that incorporate, illuminate, and interrogate queerness in new and interesting ways! Here, they use a satirical riff on the "Scooby Gang" to examine the processing of trauma and to ask what kinds of monsters keep us up at night. "Interrobangers" manages to be funny, whimsical, theatrically fantastical, and a little sexy while articulating some profound truths about queerness, otherness, and the compartmentalization of traumatic events. I love how spooky, ambiguous, hopeful, and satisfying the ending is. I look forward to following this play's trajectory as it develops! ”

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