←Recommendations of Isle Royale

A powerful coming of age tale of brothers where truths are revealed and they will never be the same again. Well done!

ISLE ROYALE is a personal and haunting play about brothers coming to terms with who they are as they leave high school. The whole time I was reading it all I could think about was the incredible opportunities Keyes is creating for a director and design team when staging this play. There are so many fascianting ways to create the world of this show. Also, the ending is amazing!

Keyes elegantly weaves a ghost story through a coming out story, masquerading as a coming of age tale. The ease and casualness of the dialogue lures the audience unsuspectingly to the harrowing ending. Would be so exciting to sit in a dark room with strangers while this play unfolds.

Isle Royale reads like a coming of age play, meets ghost story, meets family secret play. Full of laughs and shudders, it progresses with a constantly growing sense of dread while you watch in anxiety. Tackling the horror of growing up, growing apart, and finding out what really lies outside of the safety of your sheltered existence by finding out the truth of what lies beneath.

A heartfelt, tense, and haunting play, "Isle Royale" is a great exploration of these men's last step before they enter adulthood. The conversations between the mean feel honest and real, the dialogue toggles between snappy, witty banter and poetic. The end of the play packs an emotional wallop, much like what it's like to face the reality of being on your own for the first time.

A haunting, nostalgic play about young men on the way to finding themselves in the woods. Jeffrey's dialogue feels true to these young boys' lives and time in which they lived, with an atmosphere that is as scary and anxiety-inducing as any teenage boy's life! Great opportunity for a director and designers here to stage scary, action-based elements. I'd love to see this camping journey on its feet!

A haunting "last summer before adulthood" play. Keyes writes with such a sense of the dynamics of siblings and male friendship. Isle Royale moves swiftly and with deceptive ease towards a startling emotional climax. It has wonderful, sophisticated roles for young actors and is subtly attuned to class, race, and sexual identities.