←Recommendations of Message of Pain

  • Steven Hayet: Message of Pain by Lindsay Partain
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    Like any good Sci-Fi work, this play makes you sit and think. Partain takes familiar Sci-Fi ingredients (a little Aliens, a bit of Wall-E, a hint of 2001 and a dash of Star Trek's Kobayashi Maru) and combines them to tell a story that’s original and fresh. A 10-minute Twilight Zone episode that would be a great part of any festival.

    Like any good Sci-Fi work, this play makes you sit and think. Partain takes familiar Sci-Fi ingredients (a little Aliens, a bit of Wall-E, a hint of 2001 and a dash of Star Trek's Kobayashi Maru) and combines them to tell a story that’s original and fresh. A 10-minute Twilight Zone episode that would be a great part of any festival.

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  • Jordan Elizabeth Henry: Message of Pain by Lindsay Partain
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    All I needed to read was "If Jeane Luc Picard and Ellen Ripley had a baby" as a character description to know that I would love this play. Partain plays with many scifi tropes in a way that feels fresh and immediate. The beauty of scifi is its ability to prophesy over our current conditions, and this is the case in MESSAGE OF PAIN -- it asks us to be present to now, as long as now lasts, and to accept that nothing lasts forever.

    All I needed to read was "If Jeane Luc Picard and Ellen Ripley had a baby" as a character description to know that I would love this play. Partain plays with many scifi tropes in a way that feels fresh and immediate. The beauty of scifi is its ability to prophesy over our current conditions, and this is the case in MESSAGE OF PAIN -- it asks us to be present to now, as long as now lasts, and to accept that nothing lasts forever.

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