Recommendations of SECRET'S OUT

  • Emily Hageman: SECRET'S OUT

    This is such an interesting play. I love when I finish reading something and I'm not quite sure what to think about it. Are the two men in this play forward thinkers? Almost. They're so close. They almost touch on something real and frightening, but they don't quite get there. There's a lot of really interesting themes covered in Burdick's short here and what I really appreciate is that while it's funny, it really isn't. There's something dark under here, something worrisome, but we never quite touch it. It's a lot like life. Thank you, Burdick, you got me thinking.

    This is such an interesting play. I love when I finish reading something and I'm not quite sure what to think about it. Are the two men in this play forward thinkers? Almost. They're so close. They almost touch on something real and frightening, but they don't quite get there. There's a lot of really interesting themes covered in Burdick's short here and what I really appreciate is that while it's funny, it really isn't. There's something dark under here, something worrisome, but we never quite touch it. It's a lot like life. Thank you, Burdick, you got me thinking.

  • Lee R. Lawing: SECRET'S OUT

    I love this play! So funny and so the dialogue so spot on and real. Burdick takes the simple set-up and weaves such a tapestry of themes: men/women relationships, ageism, female sexuality, and commercialism. It had me laughing throughout but as with most well written comedies the true greatness is that through the laughing one can see those deeper pockets of humanity through a smile.

    I love this play! So funny and so the dialogue so spot on and real. Burdick takes the simple set-up and weaves such a tapestry of themes: men/women relationships, ageism, female sexuality, and commercialism. It had me laughing throughout but as with most well written comedies the true greatness is that through the laughing one can see those deeper pockets of humanity through a smile.

  • Matthew Weaver: SECRET'S OUT

    An honest, kind, open conversation between two men about women at different stages in their lives. Seems particularly timely with current events, and yet also feels flawlessly timeless and yet with a hopeful end that maybe some things - "We are the monsters, aren't we?" - can change, even if it's in the small act of throwing something in the garbage when nobody's looking. The revolution begins quietly.

    An honest, kind, open conversation between two men about women at different stages in their lives. Seems particularly timely with current events, and yet also feels flawlessly timeless and yet with a hopeful end that maybe some things - "We are the monsters, aren't we?" - can change, even if it's in the small act of throwing something in the garbage when nobody's looking. The revolution begins quietly.

  • Ricardo Soltero-Brown: SECRET'S OUT

    Burdick's ruminative romp stokes both bashful and genuine laughs as two men attempt to demystify just what in the blazes it is the gods have thrown their way. The consternations they accumulate are paralyzingly comic. They seem to get it, but they're never going to get it. You could argue that's their secret.

    Burdick's ruminative romp stokes both bashful and genuine laughs as two men attempt to demystify just what in the blazes it is the gods have thrown their way. The consternations they accumulate are paralyzingly comic. They seem to get it, but they're never going to get it. You could argue that's their secret.

  • Asher Wyndham: SECRET'S OUT

    In ten-minutes, Burdick's play addresses a wide range of subjects - parenting, female sexuality, male aging - without it feeling forced. And he does that by bringing two strangers of different ages and experiences together in an unlikely space -- outside a Victoria's Secret store. There, the conversation is strangely intimate, deep, real.

    In ten-minutes, Burdick's play addresses a wide range of subjects - parenting, female sexuality, male aging - without it feeling forced. And he does that by bringing two strangers of different ages and experiences together in an unlikely space -- outside a Victoria's Secret store. There, the conversation is strangely intimate, deep, real.