←Recommendations of burnout.

I related to this play on so many levels. A tribute to all the people working shitty service jobs and that are pulled down by student loans. Timms perfectly captures the anxiety and dread. You can't but want to hug and smack Noah all in one scene.

This great play perfectly encapsulates what it's like for millions of people living in the United States. The writing is incredibly honest and unsparing in its depiction of lives trying to survive one month of bills at a time.

Timms skillfully portrays the impossibility of living under capitalism, the way the costs of living just get higher, pulling the most vulnerable further and further down. And the design of the horrible system blocks the way of any tangible solidarity or support. It's hard to take in, just as it should be. The millennial experience at its most direct and unflinching.

An exceptional mosaic of the Millenial Working Class; excruciating in its honesty, lush in its poetry, and GREAT characters. I really love this play: someone please please please produce it!!!

This is a wondeful, wonderful play that so many recent college graduates and anyone paying back student loans painfully identify with. I think River does an excellent job of capturing this person in Noah. Noah has amazing potential and great intentions but can't seem to get his life on track, and that humanity, that struggle that is so universal, is what struck me most in my reading. Bravo, River!

burnout. is a play for those of us who have sold small recoverable parts of their body to buy gas. For anyone who had sleep for dinner. For people with hopes and dreams that they have to delay to afford another month of housing again and again. Timms' writing is sincere, honest, and familiar. It's painful but painful in the same way watching a sad movie is when you're already crying. It opens a valve and relieves some of the pressure, at least until the bills come.

burnout. is a play for a generation stuck behind an inert mountain of debt, unable to afford basics like dental care and housing. River Timms is a visceral writer and the way they bring the blood behind the numbers to the forefront of this story is dazzling.

A guttingly human look at the high cost of trying to live. Immediate, powerful, and achingly human. highly recommended.

The pain and pressure Noah is under is visceral and true. I'm sure it'd be a treat to stage the way scenes bleed.

A well-rendered and incisive take down of the vampiric capitalistic structures that have decimated the lives and careers and emotional/mental health of millennials emerging into the workforce. I loved the way Timms plays with real, naturalistic dialogue and potent and tough conversations as well as more stylized theatricality. The masked ensemble provides interesting fodder for movement directors and serves as an elegant metaphor for the anxieties and demons Noah isn't allowed to address due to the toxic structures or lack of structures in place to address the mental, emotional, economic, and social concerns of young adults today.