←Recommendations of Tracks

A grim reality divulged in the lens of a small-town-microcosm of young folk trying to live their lives hindered and attacked by addiction and false friendships... all the while suffering from the steady locomotive threat of big business. The symbolism explored in Tracks is thought-inducing, and I particularly liked Bray's usage of the singular setting of the play. Cementing the idea that this is the teenagers' Home. And nothing can take that away from them. This play caters a bit to every viewer, with humor at every corner and grief at every other. Tracks is exhilarating, lovingly lachrymose.

Bray writes about some pretty heavy topics, but does so in a way that intrigues a reader, and creates characters one can only feel for. Bray's characters exist in a world that is so theatrical, yet so real. I would definitely reckoned this play. I was invested in the characters and their journeys from the beginning. The play is beautifully dark and heart breaking.

I found while reading "Tracks" that I could not put it down. Bray tells the tale of Jennie and those around her in such a way that I feel as if I know these characters in my real life. As someone who grew up in a similar circumstance the realness of this story speaks volumes. While a deep, hard, gut wrencing, read it is worth all your time and energy. The story is one that should we told.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading tracks. The play handles difficult subjects in a mature and educational way. The characters are developed very well and you can easily form an attachment to them. The writing in Tracks is truly beautiful and made the story that much more enjoyable. I would definitely recommend reading this play.

The characters in John Patrick Bray’s Tracks are well-throughout-out, three-dimensional characters that the reader is sure to feel for and relate to in some way. With a tricky topic to discuss, Bray handles it with ease and talks about the consuming addiction to opioids. This play also creates divulging fantasy characters that make the hair on the back of your arms stand up. It's creative, it's spooky, and it's breathtaking. This play is a heavy, exhilarating read that only left me wanting more. 

This is a folk story. Or is it a ghost story? In the tales people tell of us, do we become myth or ghost? What's the difference if we haunt ourselves before our time? The world has always been lonely and cruel. As capitalism rolls its ugly head through our lives, are we really to blame for the few ways we can find to cope? People make mistakes all the time. Tragedy happens every day. And it hurts. Oh, it hurts.

But this isn't a ghost story. Because it dances. The system and world is cruel. But still, there's dancing.

A true American tragedy of the effects of the opioid crisis and economic displacement on a group of adolescents and, by extension, the larger community. The play also addresses the nature and making of myths and how personal catastrophes become larger than life in the retelling. All-in-all, a powerful and indelible work.

There are plays that are designed for a specific audience. This is not one of those plays. This is a must-read, must-see, must-feel, play. The characters that John Patrick Bray and so three Demensional that it feels like you know them. The humor. The humor slayed me at times and then Bray makes you feel guilty for laughing at the dark humor in brilliantly purposed moments. This play has so many amazing theatrical moments. Incredible. This play is designed for every audience. I will never forget reading this play. I was moved.

In this beautifully crafted evocation of lost youth, John Patrick Bray has captured its extreme closeness and bitter rivalries, its good intentions and terrible decisions, and the secret abandoned places we gathered to console each other with tales of the truly lost.

A moving and emotional journey in finding one's way through life in the brink of it. Well done.