←Recommendations of Bottle Episode

I love this play! It's skillful, theatrical, witty and poetic, and each character--most of which aren't human--is fascinating and compelling, particularly the luckless bottle and its poignant experiences with a baffling and disappearing world. How I would love to see this produced!

BOTTLE EPISODE was selected as a semifinalist for our Impossible Fest 2020.

BOTTLE EPISODE is a soft and poignant meditation on time, usefulness, and purpose in which the characters speak simple truths to each other. The sun dances across the sky (literally), bringing both conversation and ultimate dread to our lead character - a discarded bottle. Along the way, a bird and the wind stop by to provide company, if not comfort.

Deceptively simple stage directions elevate this play into a technically challenging dreamland. BOTTLE EPISODE is certain to delight audiences with its gentle and subtle production.

Vladimir and Estragon move over. Bottle is waiting... waiting... wishing to be taken home, or at least to be recycled. The Sun rises and sets and time passes. A philosophical Bird. A gust of Wind. And time passes into the ecological future we're afraid is coming. Humans, unaware and careless, are no more. I love this very beautiful play!

A poetic Job-like metaphorical tale of inanimate objects, animals, and natural phenomena that could capture the heart of the most die-hard literalist. What begins as an overt, even cartoonish, ecological fable soon reveals itself as a tale of physical and spiritual survival. Gill transforms a logical, mundane series of events into a magical tapestry of colorful characters and theatrical challenges begging to be staged with imagination and aplomb. He also conveys a sense of the actual world coldly lying out of sight and reach, as the sun itself, Alpha and Omega, provides warmth and solace. Beautiful!