←Recommendations of The Thrush & The Woodpecker

Awesome play with semantics and language. Tense and outrageous in a great way! Evokes the beauty of the sky and what’s above. A small detail that really hit me is the affection Noah felt for Robert when he tried to take care of Brenda’s garden.

Steve Yockey's signature combination of everyday relationships and supernatural/horror happenings is used very effectively in this play about the tenuous and evolving relationships between mothers and sons. It's taut and captivating throughout the entirety of its continuous 80 pages and manages to be surprising, unsettling, a little scary, and very poignant. The visual/aural theatrical landscape is original, and I'd love to see it realized onstage!

Yockey specializes in complicated mother/son relationships who are often separated by death and the supernatural. This play is a thriller with some twists and some brutal consequences.

The Thrush and the Woodpecker by Steve Yockey received a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. The partnering NNPN Member Theaters were Actor’s Express (Atlanta, GA), Kitchen Dog Theater (Dallas, TX), and The Custom Made Theatre Company (San Francisco, CA).

A chilling story of love and betrayal told with great mystery, tension, and surprise. A great play for two wonderful female actors and a young man. Have a read - it will keep you guessing!

Fantastic play combining human and animal nature into a beautifully devised struggle.