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  • Shaun Leisher:
    7 Dec. 2023
    A play about violence and suffering. A play about the cost of war. I need to see this fully produced. Lots of opportunities for unique stagecraft.
  • Samuel Langellier:
    21 Jun. 2023
    To be a vessel with a fulfilled role, a pour fate emptied out upon the land. Like wine to white sheets does the blood fall upon the thirsty ground. Does it drink, does it stain?

    Proctor's Plague Play contains and releases, a new conduit for old energy, that remarkably adapts chapters 7-11 of Exodus into a form begging to filled and perceived once again, with loving characters beset by the reckoning they find themselves a part of.

    We must ask ourselves in the end, are the things we release out into the world still within us?
  • Lainie Vansant:
    12 May. 2023
    Proctor fearlessly tackles big questions about God, suffering, and what exactly we owe to the people around us, especially our enemies. This is a fascinating piece with lots of spiritual and practical challenges to grapple with.
  • Brandon Urrutia:
    10 May. 2023
    Guilt is a powerful weapon. Proctor skillfully adapts the early chapters of Exodus to create a piece that opens up these biblical figures and showcases their deepest feelings out on stage for the world to enjoy.
  • Ian Thal:
    11 Mar. 2023
    Proctor's "Plague Play" is once hilarious absurdist comedy, animal-themed magic show, and body horror; taken from the most troubling sequence from the Exodus story. The poetic and profane coexist as plagues emerge from Aaron's body, and Moses sees those with whom he grew up die one after another. At the same time, Aaron and Miriam find themselves bonding with their long lost younger brother Moses and his wife Tzipporah.
  • Rosalind Elise Parenzan:
    23 Jan. 2023
    I totally forgot about Aaron existing until I read this play and now I don't think I can ever look at Exodus the same. Ideal for a company looking to explore onstage body horror.
  • Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend:
    29 Dec. 2022
    This play dramatizes the plagues from the Book of Exodus, but from a perspective I had never even considered: Aaron's body creates the plagues, and causing widespread sorrow like that takes a toll on a person emotionally (not to mention the physical toll of, say, vomiting up frogs). Watching the toll each plague takes on Aaron, the guilt Moses feels in what he's doing to both his adopted and biological brothers, and how the women are the rocks who hold things together is fantastic. Also there's a joke about golf balls that I wasn't expecting but absolutely adored.
  • Stephen Fruchtman:
    17 Jul. 2022
    A telling of the story of the ten plagues that is in turns hilarious and moving and visceral and human and specific and queer and kind and caring and full and so much more that I didn't even realize there was room for in a story I had gotten so used to in Haggadahs and animation. Structuring each scene around each plague is particularly clever. Trying to remember some of them and dreading the others and their impact on the characters I'd come to know over the course of the play was a powerful experience.
  • Elle Meerovich:
    28 Apr. 2022
    A perfect play for those who want to look at the religion and traditions of their childhood with a more analytical eye. The painfully human characters interact with beautiful, loving dialogue, as the quartet tries to care for each other while the world around them falls apart. Made me examine the stories of my youth with more empathy than I may have before.
  • Walden Barnett Marcus:
    31 Mar. 2022
    My heart aches for them all... Like any good analysis of Judaism, invites questions from the first breath and leaves the dust settling around the reader in the aftermath of the answer. Gorgeous inspection of the plagues and highly recommended for anyone who grew up with the Haggadah ingrained in their soul. Nostalgic to those familiar with the story, and welcoming to modern lenses in presentation.