Had the pleasure of working with this script in the Seattle production and it was just as dynamic on the stage as it is on the page. The dialogue flies as the tension builds and builds, lots of opportunities for the whole team to make choices but still feels solidly grounded in the world Chris has created. Hilarious and heartbreaking, would absolutely recommend to anyone considering producing this script.

A sublime play that opens with catastrophe at the fantastical/global level as well as the immediate familial level. From there, the sci-fi circumstances serve as a simple but powerful metaphor for the family implosion going on inside Brielle and Zachary's apartment. Vanderark provides enough details about the world to make the circumstances potent, but then skillfully focusing on the human heart of the play. The treatment of each flawed character is very sensitive--they are rendered with deft skill and are all clearly fighting their own impossible battles. The ending is a poignant, time-bending, stop-motion-animation-like punctuation mark.

Equal turns darkly hilarious and starkly serious Minutes and Seconds has a way of gripping you in its encapsulation of the past, present and "future" of a dysfunctional family that's been a lit fuse their whole lives. An incredible rapture of a play filled with people that clash, contradict and "cozy" up indoors while the world freezes to death outside. The ending is not only a punch to the heart but also a sort of quiet ruminated truth about trying to be alive. Read now!