←Recommendations of angel's share

An amazing exploration of grief and humanity itself. Finocchiaro's work is pure musicality as we go down the rabbit hole of all these characters. I was left with profound thoughts after a viewing of a staged reading of this at FutureFest 2025, and I predict big things for this play moving forward. This one will stick with you for many days after you read or view it. Highly recommended.

Can love look and feel the same after a terrible loss? Reminiscent of "Rabbit Hole" with a stronger sci-fi bent, "angel's share" explores a couple whose approach to coping with the loss of their son forces them to confront their deep-seated differences. In addition to the creative setting and subtle world-building, Dominic Finocchiaro's dialogue is taut and poetic, leaning into the halting rhythms and tragically infrequent poetry of everyday speech. Lovely work.

So much lightness and kindness and humour and hope in a show about something unspeakably sad. Dominic has a beautifully delicate touch with both dialogue and characters, and creates something intricate, nuanced, and very deeply human. I saw this in a reading and the audience was palpably, visibly fascinated and moved by the skillful work here.

A crushing and gorgeous story that is somehow both intimate and exploratory. A rare sci-fi play in which worldbuilding never takes anything away from relationships, and only adds to the humanity of the piece.

A powerful story of grief and coping with loss as these characters work their way through. Well done.

This is a quiet and stunning small story about grief. Finocchiaro presents a fascinating sci-fi setup that serves the story well and doesn't distract from its human core. Once Stephen comes into the picture, mom and dad's interactions with him are potent and powerful. I was most impressed at how this play works both as an intimate and nuanced story with well-drawn and multi-dimensional characters, and as a powerful almost-parable about the realities of coping with loss. The ending was both surprising and extremely poignant. The last scene moved me quite a lot with its wise absence of sentimentality.