←Recommendations of Reset

The community of National Committee readers for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced RESET as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We were appreciated that the characters are carefully crafted, the dialogue is intellectually engaging, and the release of information about them is artful. We leaned into this philosophically provocative piece as the writer uses the scientific experiments as the form to explore core theme of the play. We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in this play’s journey towards production. #BAPF46

Howard Ho is a brilliant guy, and he takes us on a wild, theoretical and intellectual ride with Reset. The scientific thrust of the play supports profound emotional stakes as well, and a feeling of gleeful comic dread permeates the show (I saw the production at Moving Arts). The director, actors and designers clearly had a blast working in the futuristic milieu Ho creates, and I felt both moved and enlightened. Smart fun!

A play that asks a very uneasy question, "will you like your future self?" The playwright crafts an intriguing story that shows how a person's quest to better themselves can often have unexpected results. Gives you a lot to think about, and how your plans for the future can be upended. The characters are great, and the premise is a winner.

I am going to be pondering over this play for awhile. So many huge ideas to think over but I found myself as emotionally involved as I was intellectually.

RESET is a quick-paced mind-bender that will leave you in a state of existential contemplation--about the possibly terrifying future of the world as well as your own possibly terrifying individual future. Despite asking a lot of big questions, the play never gets so hung up in its own thoughtfulness that it stops being completely engrossing...it's a nail-biter to the end!