Cheryl Bear:
16 Jun. 2021
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A revealing story about one's orbit changing as things aren't operating as they were and it brings to question what we can do for ourselves and those around us as we become aware. Well done. ”
Recommendations
Recommendations
- Unicorn Theatre:28 Mar. 2019“ This play was a FINALIST for the 2017-2018 In-Progress New Play Reading Series at Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri. It is our pleasure to support THE ORBIT OF MERCURY. ”
- Eugene O'Neill Theater Center:1 May. 2017“ It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Bob Bartlett and their play The Orbit of Mercury as a finalist for our 2017 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one of 55 finalists out of more than 1,300 submissions, the strength of its writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process. Our readers responded to the play’s compelling supernatural elements and heightened sequences. ”
- Donna Hoke:7 Apr. 2017“ A timely piece that acknowledges all that is wrong with racial relations, and, before Mercury slips into retrograde and everything has the potential to fall apart, shines a light on the baby steps that make one set of circumstances an example of critical acknowledgment. For now. For a minute. Though the play has a timeless, ethereal quality, it bursts with an urgency that begs us to pay attention to the tiniest details of what is happening around us, because they all matter. And it does it without being preachy, and with ghosts, in an old-time diner; who doesn't love that? ”