←Recommendations of Some Specter

Whim Productions was proud to feature this play in the 2018 Alphabet Soup: Stories from Queer Voices LGBTQ+ short play festival.

A delightful blend of whimsy and drama, John Adams displays an elegant balance between two styles that don't easily blend. Inside the cartoonish existence of the characters lies real human emotions and tribulations, in the end producing a product that is far from frivolous. Playwrighting skill on display here in only ten minutes.

Caught this little gem at the Midwest Dramatists Conference, and was awfully glad I did. John Adams has a facility for blending whimsy, mystery, and loss in this alternately delightful and poignant 10-minute piece that will have you laughing out loud and then maybe wiping away a tear. It'll stay with you, believe me.

A charming, touching, hilarious riff on the boy detective tales we know and love. This play deals with two hurting people finding a way to come together in grief, and it proves once and for all that friends that solve mysteries together, stay together.

A beautiful coming-of-age story that marries the cynicism of adulthood and childhood idealism. You are taken with the silliness and self-importance lifted almost directly from Scooby Doo and the Hardy Boys from Ben, and you absolutely love the lampooning of these tropes by the more world-weary Gabriel. Using these two characters John Adams creates a new mystery within a mystery that these two young men reckoning with their pain were recruited to solve. Like the best of storytellers Adams doesn't allow us easy endings. Rather, he leaves us with much more in the unsolved mysteries of grief and early departures.

This is a delightful roller coaster of a play. Adams gives us a touching story of a friendship between two high students; one straight, one gay; steeped in a Scooby-Doo-esque mystery. Adams takes you on a wonderful ride from almost farce levels to an honest and touching examination of loss.