←Recommendations of Bottle Episode

A uniquely memorable bit of anthropomorphism. Streaked through with funny lines and imagery, but with a deep sadness at its core. Despite its repetitive structure, I never knew what the piece would throw at me, which is the highest of compliments.

A terrific short play for a university theatre festival. In addition to flexible casting, every role is smartly written so that it provides room for an actor to bring their own unique spin and make it their own. I was able to see the FDU University Players production and the wind blew (pun intended) the audience away with his comedic timing.

Awwww! This is such a beautiful and heart breaking piece. Maximillian has brought to life a character that audiences can feel for in the most unlikely of places. As you watch you keep hoping and wanting Bottle to make it to a recycling bin. Its a great piece with a lovely underlining message. It would make a great piece for festivals, either staged or short film!

Stunning. Memorable. One of the most unique things I've ever read. Weird, but kept my attention. I genuinely wanted to know what would happen to the bottle. Would he be recycled? Would he be shattered? I did NOT see the end coming and what a surprise at the end. Just an all around fantastic work and would be GREAT for contest. It is the best of what live theater should be. Meaningful yet fun, and done in a way that can only be done on a stage. Not a staged movie. A real play. Good Job!

An inventive play with plenty of important things to say! I enjoyed the anthropomorphic characters--especially the relationship between Sun and Bottle.

MAXIMILLIAN GILL tackles some critical issues in his brilliantly conceived ten-minute play, “Bottle Episode”. Climate change, waste and recycling, dependency on others are subtext to this witty play. I love the use of inanimate objects to tell a most-human story.

This play is delightfully weird, and asks necessary questions about current changes to our environment through a comedic cast of characters. Who would have thought a bottle had something so important to say?

This is a delightfully strange play! I knew from the beginning of the character list that I would love it, and it did not disappoint. Maximillian manages to breathe life into inanimate objects such as a plastic bottle, the sun, and a rather articulate bird. They are here with a poignant and important message about climate change. Well done!

Some same fire, others say ice. This is a beautiful ode to life and extinction and choosing the best friends possible that have your back and every other part of you when the end does arrive in whatever form it takes.

There's nothing so profound and fundamentally changing as an existential crisis, so to know that even inanimate objects can experience them is both reassuring and terrifying. Gill's mastery of comic timing is on full display here, but even more brilliant is his subtle, gradual descent into a blistering critique of (some of) humanity's response to climate change and environmentalism. When we all melt in the glorious heat of the sun, are we truly different than our titular hero? Won't we theoretically melt faster?