←Recommendations of Spotting Thermals

Jarred Corona’s SPOTTING THERMALS is a gritty procedural a la True Detective or The Fall, complete with dark twists and turns and suffused with poetry. More typically seen on the screen, I think this kind of story would come alive incredibly on the stage, and can only imagine how the tension will build in a live audience. A great read that I’d love to see up on its feet!

This is such a deep, dark thriller. It reminds me of the thrillers I used to watch in my college days and loved. The characters are all so distinct and there are roles for so many great actors. This is a play that will totally be the talk of your season!

A truly epic play with some very sharp dialogue! As a fellow Savannah writer I find it fabulous that I have a Detective Ellis as well, I named mine after two squares. This play is a terse thriller with a satisfying climax. Looking forward to reading more of Corona’s works!

Humanity has a knack for putting a unique balance of beauty and ugliness into the world. Corona's sharp, brisk thriller is nothing short of a stunning portrait of this. As a series of bizarre murders rocks the town of the protagonists, "Spotting Thermals" poetically submerges itself in (or ascends into?) the murkiness of mental health, delusion, hope, maladaptive coping, and everything in-between. It's a fantastic change of pace to see a play tap from the world of crime procedurals, and the complex web of characters is deftly drawn and richly realized. Hell of a play.

It’s rare to see a stage play swim in the serial-killer-hunting waters so common in TV and film, and Jarred Corona dives in beautifully here. Someone is throwing teen boys off of rooftops, and flawed detective Ellis sets out to stop them. Amid the spot-on execution of tropes you’d find in SEVEN or L&O: SVU, we get a story steeped in Southern culture, loaded up with distinctive characters, sprinkled with casually queer romance, and told in dialogue that alternates between hard-boiled pragmatism and ethereal, haunted beauty. A dark film noir reboot for the way we live now.

Firstly I would like to comment on the absolutely fabulous phrasing used by some of the characters in this piece! I found myself invested in the plot almost immediately and as the piece moved from location to the location the more invested I became. The central component of any detective related piece is to draw the audience in and this writer has most certainly done that! Its a piece that should see a stage...soon!

A mystery that opens with murders most unusual, and inhabits that same strangeness throughout. The dialogue here does a great job of drawing us into this hard grim world filled with death and loss, through the eyes of those who have to face it, creating a setting that's off from our reality, yet believable.