Mordy is a struggling musician living in Los Angeles. His older sister Jane is a successful attorney and a mother of three in New Jersey. But when their widowed mother's life becomes emotionally and financially taxed by her terrible, centenarian father, these two adult siblings are drawn together into an elaborate plot to relieve their mother’s burden and their own. Told almost entirely via text messages,...
Mordy is a struggling musician living in Los Angeles. His older sister Jane is a successful attorney and a mother of three in New Jersey. But when their widowed mother's life becomes emotionally and financially taxed by her terrible, centenarian father, these two adult siblings are drawn together into an elaborate plot to relieve their mother’s burden and their own. Told almost entirely via text messages, The Burdens is a dark, family comedy about how technology helps keep us close, while still enabling us to keep our distance. It’s sometimes easier to type something than it is to say it face to face. But please, be careful of auto-correct. It can be murder.
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The Burdens
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Cheryl Bear:
24 Jan. 2021
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An incredibly funny and authentic relationship between siblings from afar as they wittily communicate over our most common vehicle, text message. Well done! ”
Stephanie Alison Walker:
2 Dec. 2020
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The Burdens is so smart, so charming, so full of heart and so funny it makes you wish you had written it. But you didn't. Matt Schatz did and it shows. Because it's so smart, so charming, so full of heart so funny-- very on brand for Mr. Schatz. I absolutely adore this brother/sister relationship and love that they get their very own play that includes everything I mentioned above and also suspense! It made me laugh so hard I cried and also moved me to tears. ”
Deb Hiett:
23 Nov. 2020
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Oh man. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. This play is wonderfully written and paced, and provides each of the two amazing characters terrific arcs. The playwright really captures that ineffable sibling *thing* -- that connection that simultaneously drives a person insane and also feels like the best hug you've ever had in your life. There's a line in the last third of the play that also made me gasp with how lovely it was, how profound and meaningful. I just loved it, and think everyone will relate in some way. Cheers! ”