"The Burn" falls into what is rapidly becoming my favorite new sub-genre of play--the "Play in Conversation with 'The Crucible'" genre--because these plays reposition the themes and issues from the Witch Trials to center women in the story rather than that bore, John Proctor! Here, Dawkins astutely focuses on the ways that society pits women against one another in order to distract from the horrors and crimes of the patriarchy and toxic masculinity. "The Burn" theatricalizes the online world in a compelling and super-saturated-but-low-tech manner. One grand gesture of projection/technology is...
"The Burn" falls into what is rapidly becoming my favorite new sub-genre of play--the "Play in Conversation with 'The Crucible'" genre--because these plays reposition the themes and issues from the Witch Trials to center women in the story rather than that bore, John Proctor! Here, Dawkins astutely focuses on the ways that society pits women against one another in order to distract from the horrors and crimes of the patriarchy and toxic masculinity. "The Burn" theatricalizes the online world in a compelling and super-saturated-but-low-tech manner. One grand gesture of projection/technology is used very effectively and chillingly at the climax.