←Recommendations of Falling Skies

I am never not thinking about "In my own way I loved him." Frascone accesses a nuance with this line that I have searched for my whole life.

Brayden Frascone has written a simple yet very profound play about a brief encounter between two people that changes their lives. One, at the end of his life, achieves a sense of forgiveness and redemption. The gift he makes enables the other character to begin moving forward through his grief and grasp an opportunity to achieve his dream. The dialogue is believable and natural, and the characters are well drawn. It’s a simple presentation of how two lives can intersect and have profound impact on each other.

A true mark of a strongly composed one-act play is if it can exist as a fulfilling night of theatre all on its own; while I haven't yet paid an admission price to see this play, I'd happily do it in full, a dozen times over, just to sit under the eponymous skylight in the run-down club with the two characters Brayden's given voice to. Falling Skies is a beautiful, humorous, heart wrenching story of shared grief and finding grace in forgiveness.

A moving, honest play about two people from completely different walks of life deciding to meet under the shared night sky. It is a painful journey for both characters as they try to piece together the life of the one person they loved. Brayden paints a beautiful depiction of what it means to live with the family you are born with and the family you make yourself. This play left me with the feeling of "home" does not look the same to everyone, but it's where you feel safe and loved.

I had the pleasure to see a reading of FALLING SKIES at Ohio University. This is a poignant story about two men who in any other circumstance might not have met but are brought together by tragedy. And yet at the same time Brayden manages to weave in comedy amidst the pain. This is a truly beautiful story that I hope goes on to have a life after Ohio University.