Scott Sauls:
10 Apr. 2022
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What a fun play! Imaginative, funny, and totally relatable. I wanted this to go on and on... ”
Recommendations
Recommendations
- e.k. doolin:7 Dec. 2021“ fun and funny - i love the way Dickens Assaf dramatizes the inner monologue and all that comes with the over-thinking factor in relationships. this would be a really enjoyable piece to see, and i'm sure (with 99.9% certainty) i would laugh out loud.
” - Steven G. Martin:12 Aug. 2021“ The logic of the mind versus the chaos of the heart. This is an ultimately sweet story about saying "yes" when the possibility of love appears.
"Inevitable" isn't cloyingly cute or syrupy, however. Bethany Dickens Assaf punctuates the story with very funny dialogue and visuals on the path to the ultimately sweet "yes": waffles, porn, cocaine, and evil presence of clueless Rob.
This is a story many will understand, the characters' pitfalls and challenges lead to great visuals and dialogue, and the feel-good ending will make audiences smile. I hope its production history will grow even more robust. ” - Emma Goldman-Sherman:18 Aug. 2020“ A really fun play that would be a blast to design/direct or be in - highly theatrical - even while it stays grounded in what is actually happening which turns out to be inevitable. ”
- James McLindon:10 Jun. 2020“ A comedy for anyone who has ever overthought a relationship or a situation only to realize that they haven't even scratched the surface and life is just a step into the void. So funny and one that stays with you. ”
- Larry Rinkel:7 May. 2020“ I too was at a parallel session at Midwest in 2019 and so missed this sparkling rom-com. Dickens takes an unusual and entirely successful approach to direct address here, situating her play in the mind of a stumbling but likable nerd for whom the possibilities of failure are endless, but for whom at the end the possibilities of success are endless too. I love the buoyancy and ease of the dialogue, and the ingenious play with structure in which the slightest change of direction can lead to an entirely unexpected outcome. Nice font in the script, too. ”
- Victoria Esposito:18 Mar. 2020“ "Inevitable" is a lovely piece where the possibilities are endless! Dicken's masterful comedy is displayed here in Simon's hypothetical of hypotheticals. There is something touching here about the fact that love can not be narrowed down to a science and that the world inevitably is unpredictable. I did not get a chance to see it at the Midwest Dramatist's Conference, but boy am I glad I read it now! ”
- Asher Wyndham:9 Oct. 2019“ This play uses actors and theatre boxes to create a spectacle of Simon's mind, an externalization of his thought-process on stage. In doing so, it forgets time, creating a fluidity of space and movement that's refreshing, revealing and ruminative.
If you want something unexpected in respects to structure or an alternative to your typical Boy-meets-Girl/dating play, check out this play! ” - Robert Weibezahl:4 Oct. 2019“ Dickens plays fast and loose with reality and expectations (and the space-time continuum) in this hilarious comedy about alternative scenarios of what we think we want, the choices we do and do not make, and the inevitability of those choices. A crackerjack reading at the Midwest Dramatists Conference kept the audience guessing--and laughing. ”
- John Patrick Bray:4 Oct. 2019“ I love all of the possibilities for staging with this play - where I teach, we have a Dramatic Media area of emphasis, and so much could be done with video walls, holograms, etc. But truthfully, the play would stand well without the addition of media, as evidenced by the sensational reading at the Midwest Dramatists Conference. This play is so much fun, and I very much feel like Bethany was inside my twenty-five year old head while writing it! ”