←Recommendations of bogfriends

I saw a great reading of this play at Irish Rep. The way the play introduces its audience to the character pairings was riveting -- especially when the pairs we're introduced to began to mix and match into new configurations and vocabularies (on and offstage). The form is so exciting and getting to watch actors slip between identities and time periods so seamlessly was wonderfully theatrical and made me crave being able to watch it all unfold while fully designed in the context of a production.

This play caught me off guard in the best way. bogfriends is funny, raw, and strangely tender—a time-bending two-hander about decay, desire, and the things we choose to preserve. The shifts in language and rhythm are masterful, moving from ancient intimacy to contemporary awkwardness without missing a beat.

I really loved this play. A fantastic two-hander where the same two actors play characters from different countries of origin. From different periods of time. A play about how relationships can be preserved or decay like a deceased body. A play about gay men trying to love and just live their lives. I loved the choice to make one of the characters older than the other. I loved the power dynamics that holds. I'd love to see what a skilled scenic and costume designer can do with this piece. A feast of actors.

What gets preserved, what gets memorialized, and what is left to rot. bogfriends is a meticulously created play that uses two actors, six characters, and 4000 years to weave together an oddly beautiful exploration of what it is to try to love someone. The right production team could make magic with the designs of this play. I would love to see this one on a stage.

I saw a reading of bogfriends at the 2023 National Playwrights Conference, and its structure alone was enough to convince me that sebastian is a world-class talent. Watching the play layer theme and character across space and time is like flipping through one of those anatomy textbooks, the kind that use translucent pages to layer bones, veins, muscles, until it all comes together as a fully fleshed body (a bog body, naturally). A thoughtful meditation on connection, separation, and the squelchy no-man’s-land that lies in between.

absolutely adored this play--this is a hilarious and searing journey through time and space that is fundamentally a love story. the two lovers grapple with what is preserved and what is lost in bogs and in relationships and make you smile and cry and wonder why you love who it is that you love. produce this play, read this play, and all of alberdi's plays. saw it twice at the o'neill and can't wait to see it again.

This play!!! A gift to designers, a gymnastics routine for two actors, and five-course meal for an audience, I'm obsessed with how funny and tender and technicolor the worlds of this play are. A will-they-won't-they love story that sprawls across 4,000 years, I don't know that I've ever seen a couple like Tanner and Archie onstage. They are hairy and FUNNY and, sure, at times toxic--but overall written with such a reservoir of genuine love for each other (platonic or romantic, unimportant). Producers: this is a two-hander, hilarious, wildly imaginative, award-winning script. What more can you ask for?

This play is tender, strange, hilarious, heartwarming, and most importantly, boggy. And it features one of the best proposal scenes you'll ever see in a play.

This is such a tender, original, and melancholy piece about relationships, love, and queerness graced with subtle humor. The triple casting heightens the parallels and universal truths of human connection across the ages. Where Tanner and Archie get with one another at the end feels both refreshingly honest yet natural and organic. The ending is hopeful and along the way a lot of truths are revealed about the anxieties and neuroses and hopes we bring into relationships and what we do when they aren't satisfied in easy or straightforward manners. I'd love to see this inventive piece staged!