←Recommendations of Finger

Vee grabbed my attention from the get-go and I would love to see her and the finger's story realized on stage.

An offbeat and funny play that toys with time in an interesting fashion and is populated by dynamic characters. I love how you can take this both as a straightforward story, following the engaging arc of Vee's literal quest, and as a larger meditation on lots of other things--connection, obsession, alienation, and the sustaining of relationships. Lots of priceless imagery here as well, both visual and dialogic!

Cathro takes what could've just been a lurid story and turns it into something surprisingly tender, funny, and at times even moving. A play about what happens when we entrust a part of ourselves to someone else--in this case literally!

A Lynchian dive into the philosophy of being human. FINGER provides actors with an opportunity to walk the fine line of investigation and obsession. This script gives an audience a lot to unpack and discuss about the parts that make up a human. There’s also a tremendous opportunity for a lucky props designer...
You’ll be thinking about your appendages for weeks to come after reading this play. Definitely ready for the stage!

THE SEVERED FINGER IS A MACGUFFIN.

Yes, audiences will get pulled into the story of "Finger" by the grotesque, the macabre, and the very darkly funny (and sometimes juvenile) humor. But then DC Cathro downshifts and the story becomes an uneasy view about wanting to care for someone else and wanting to do right for them, even under impossible circumstances.

This isn't a play about a severed finger found by a high school girl. It's a play about compassion and being humane ... with the fun window dressing of gore and the grotesque.

I’m filling out forms to have DC Cathro committed, so he can get the help he so desperately needs.

FINGER is sick, Sick, SICK!!! Casually macabre and sublimely funny, it had me belly laughing at such morbid things, I’ve deemed Cathro “a danger to others.”

It’s also a beautiful tale of isolation and the need to connect in a world that seems to have no room for you. The hearts, black clad and damaged, beat loudly from a chasm of yearning.

On second thought, I’m tearing up the forms. We need Cathro right where he is.

Wow. This is some seriously fucked up, seriously funny shit. Really dark, really ballsy, and really, really, laugh out loud funny. Wild, weird, and wonderful, with a deeply touching story of loss and yearning underneath the hilariously goth goings on.

We are pleased to support this play! It was a Finalist for the 2020 New Works Festival at Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas, Texas.