I found John Bussers play Guardian touching- and fascinating. The characters are well developed and totally engaging. A man and his loving, protective, dog meet a stranger and things quickly escalate into a tense and terrifying confrontation. I believe the subject of terror during a pandemic will resonate with everyone these days.-- A must read!

I love plays that have an unexpected twist and this script has that in spades. It immediately grips you with a confrontation that feels like it's not going to go well. After all, agitated dog, man with shotgun, desperate stranger. It's all set up for increasing tension as the two people and the dog interact with the other. Even when it seems the conflict has been resolved, the tension remains . . . sort of like a horror plot where someone thinks it's over, but it's not. Boy, is it not! Busser has done excellent work in creating this world.

A brilliant and deeply moving exploration of what we would and wouldn't do to protect ourselves and others, and what genuine loving kindness does and doesn't look like. Two strangers in dire life-and-death circumstances face off, the desperate need of one hitting the implacable wall of the other; mediating it all is the the dog Roxie, a terrific character and terrifically effective device that not only charms but packs a wallop when the story gets where it's going. You're a good girl, Roxie. Such a good, good girl.