"I want to experience things the way I eat wafer cookies." My breath caught with how beautiful and perfect that section is. So good! Come for this moment of exquisite articulation and stay for the wonderful fantasy that is this entire script.

Animal Town is an elegant extended metaphor and vehicle for Dakota's journey throughout this piece. Actors would enjoy playing these complex humans, and I imagine directors and designers would have a ball realizing the fantastical world onstage and theatricalizing the way reality bleeds into fantasy and vice versa. The exploration of queer friendship and love, the sometimes blurry or confusing boundaries between those things, and the yearning for a center of gravity and home base as a young adult is all thoroughly explored in a delightful manner. I'm eager to keep track of the trajectory of this piece!

An intriguing and fantastic piece set in the rich world of a role-playing game; it plays with themes of imagination and companionship in our social lives in ways I have never seen written for the stage before. Not to title-drop, but OPUS really is an opus. PLUS THERE’S A FREAKING LIVING SKELETON. HOW COOL IS THAT? Highly recommended.