With a nod to Sam Shepard's "True West" and Athol Fugard's "Blood Knot", Christian St. Croix shows, with "We Are The Forgotten Beasts", that he is an immense theater talent who must be reckoned with. Each of the four characters - especially the brothers - live and speak from a place of dark, nearly debilitating pain, and their phantasmagorical reveries are cathartic in their impact. This is a highly engaging work. And I look forward to reading more of this young man's plays.

A really compelling read, with finely drawn character work, relationships that keep unfolding, serious theatricality. This play had me feeling all my feelings, awake to wonder in new ways. Would love to see it staged!

Four vivid and compelling characters, each with a moving backstory, reveal three vivid and compelling fantasy worlds (one world is shared by two brothers). The fantasy worlds are coping mechanisms that allow the characters to handle the abuse and disappointments, the grief and failures, that have marred their lives. As they share the final fantasy, the possibility of healing emerges. This play takes us on a wildly theatrical and richly imaginative journey.