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I love this play in a strange way. It's simultaneously funny and horrifying at the same time. A kind of ground hog day, deja vu doom loop that creeps up on you and left me kind of devastated if I'm being honest. Bob is one the funniest and smartest playwrights that you will ever have the good fortune to meet. Check out his work. You'll be glad you did.

I have been a fan this play for a long time now, Kerr's use of time for the degradation of Marc and Jess' really shines through the text. Kerr has weaved a story worth reading, seeing, and seeing again. I hope this play receives all the accolades it deserves.

A darkly comic and finely tuned dissection of a failing marriage, told through a time loop structures kept fresh through the clever conceit of the characters not quite realizing that the sameness of all their days has become literal. The awkward sex scenes are laugh-out-loud funny on paper and I'm sure would be even better in performance. And the end is quietly devastating. Well done.

Life is patterns; many of them repetitious, some with quirks that alter the pattern, yet coming back to the same place, and we find comfort in them, so much so that any change is frightening and resisted. In this intriguing and carefully-crafted play, Robert Kerr gives us two people so inured with their patterns that even the slightest change is immediately absorbed, and the repetition goes on. This isn't "Groundhog Day;" it's far more intricate and suspenseful.

The action seems quotidian and simple, but layers and layers of strange are lurking below the ordinary surface. This super-producible two-hander is spooky, mysterious, and hilarious by turn as the truth is revealed bit by bit.

I had the pleasure to read the stage directions for a reading of this play recently; what a fabulous dissection of a young marriage. Funny and devastating, Kerr keeps peeling back the layers of this dysfunctional relationship with the skill of a young Albee; his use of humor is as dark, and as hilarious. He also uses repetition to startling effect; there are many loops in this play, yet everything is perfectly clear and the forward momentum never ceases. A really terrific work from a really terrific playwright.