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Survivors Club by Arthur M Jolly

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  • Maggie Gallant:
    24 Mar. 2022
    “ A brilliant premise crafted with great skill into a dark comedy. The many laughs come from the clever parodying of the characters from the book/film but then Jolly make you question whether you should really be laughing at long-lived trauma. But then back into the absurd with a conversation about Nibling as a definition. It's a great writer who can create this kind of dichotomy and it would only be heightened by seeing it staged, which it undoubtedly will be. ”
  • Robin Rice:
    7 Jan. 2022
    “ As the world experiences PTSD from its struggle with Covid, Arthur Jolly puts a magnifying glass to four people who experienced a singular, mutual trauma as children - and how it affected each of them. Which makes "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" ever so current - and ever so funny!
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  • Marcia Eppich-Harris:
    7 Jan. 2022
    “ I have occasionally wondered what happened to the kids who lost the chocolate factory, and now, we know. This hilarious look at the kids, fifty years on, and their relationships, as well as trauma, is brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. I wish I'd written it. I would love to see this one on stage. I think it would be fantastic!! ”
  • Cheryl Bear:
    27 Jan. 2021
    “ The most fantastic therapy session as we delve into the issues of the chocolate factory survivors. Well done. ”
  • Robert Weibezahl:
    23 Apr. 2020
    “ With his customary incisive eye for social commentary, Jolly upends our expectations and presents the grownup versions of some characters from a famous children’s book not as the ‘odious’ or ‘villainous’ caricatures the original narrative would suggest but as the damaged, innocent victims of malevolent abuse. ‘How long does trauma last?’ one character asks, and that question becomes the haunting underscore for this dark, thought-provoking parody. ”
  • Tamar Shai Bolkvadze:
    1 Mar. 2020
    “ The absolute pleasure of listening to Chocolate Factory survivors characterize their experience in therapy-speak cannot be overstated. ”
  • Doug DeVita:
    10 Feb. 2020
    “ Comparisons are, of course, odious, but there does seem to be a spate of work recently which chronicles the fallout from that infamous trip to a chocolate factory over 50 years ago. In Arthur M. Jolly’s account — which is a brief golden nugget of a play — the action is concise and intense: it has its funny moments, but on the whole “The Survivor’s Club” is far more bitter than sweet. And for those of us who like dark chocolate as well as the lighter varieties, it’s just right too. ”
  • Philip Middleton Williams:
    10 Feb. 2020
    “ You do not have to have read "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" to feel the intensity of the feelings these survivors of that children's story and to understand what their life was like after. Arthur M. Jolly, ever the master storyteller, has given us a suspenseful and deeply-felt tale of what they feel and how they respond to each other when they reunite. It has some wonderful nuggets and keeps your attention all the way through. I'd love to see this staged. ”