←Recommendations of The Dog

  • Brenton Kniess: The Dog by Ricardo Soltero-Brown
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    This play is absolutely outstanding! Ricardo Soltero-Brown crafts such an incredible and engaging theatrical experience. The dialogue is truly magnificent. The journey that these characters go on is captured so beautifully and honestly. There is so much power in these words that Ricardo writes. Absolutely amazing!

    This play is absolutely outstanding! Ricardo Soltero-Brown crafts such an incredible and engaging theatrical experience. The dialogue is truly magnificent. The journey that these characters go on is captured so beautifully and honestly. There is so much power in these words that Ricardo writes. Absolutely amazing!

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  • Christopher Soucy: The Dog by Ricardo Soltero-Brown
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    What an incredible play. The dialogue is perfectly paced with an almost surreal edge. The monologues are masterful. All in all there is an amazing rumination on how relationships have unexpected twists and turns that require addressing and maybe even sacrifice.

    What an incredible play. The dialogue is perfectly paced with an almost surreal edge. The monologues are masterful. All in all there is an amazing rumination on how relationships have unexpected twists and turns that require addressing and maybe even sacrifice.

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  • Dave Osmundsen: The Dog by Ricardo Soltero-Brown
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    Two unnamed characters (referred to only as A and B) dance around the questions that most, if not all, couples are forced to confront about their loyalty to one another and what both are willing to sacrifice for each other. Their avoidance, captured with fast-paced, artfully inarticulate dialogue, is aggravated when A's dog violently attacks B. In addition to the back and forth between these two, there are razor-sharp monologues about love and devotion--the monologues to the dog are particularly strong, as well as the opening monologue. A messy play about messy, flawed people.

    Two unnamed characters (referred to only as A and B) dance around the questions that most, if not all, couples are forced to confront about their loyalty to one another and what both are willing to sacrifice for each other. Their avoidance, captured with fast-paced, artfully inarticulate dialogue, is aggravated when A's dog violently attacks B. In addition to the back and forth between these two, there are razor-sharp monologues about love and devotion--the monologues to the dog are particularly strong, as well as the opening monologue. A messy play about messy, flawed people.

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  • Lee R. Lawing: The Dog by Ricardo Soltero-Brown
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    The Dog is a darkly funny and horrifying cautionary tale about one engagement derailed by one dog's violent and unpredictable reaction to their owner's engagement. Relationships are hard enough as it is and when you bring any of the family into it, be it human or canine, you are bound to face those who approve and those who do not. What A and B find out during the play is just how far anyone will go to appease one you are promising yourself to for that life-time commitment though sickness and health until parted by death.

    The Dog is a darkly funny and horrifying cautionary tale about one engagement derailed by one dog's violent and unpredictable reaction to their owner's engagement. Relationships are hard enough as it is and when you bring any of the family into it, be it human or canine, you are bound to face those who approve and those who do not. What A and B find out during the play is just how far anyone will go to appease one you are promising yourself to for that life-time commitment though sickness and health until parted by death.

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  • Julia Gagne: The Dog by Ricardo Soltero-Brown
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    THE DOG is a funny, intelligent, and at times horrifying play. Love between 2 people is complex, and a third entity that also loves and is loved can insert itself and complicate things even further. Saltero-Brown has a keen sense of language and dialogue, and paints colorful pictures with a minimum of fluff. It may take a minute for the reader to be let in on the situation, but once they are 'in', they will definitely have some fun. I recommend this play, and think it especially suited to a college/young adult production.

    THE DOG is a funny, intelligent, and at times horrifying play. Love between 2 people is complex, and a third entity that also loves and is loved can insert itself and complicate things even further. Saltero-Brown has a keen sense of language and dialogue, and paints colorful pictures with a minimum of fluff. It may take a minute for the reader to be let in on the situation, but once they are 'in', they will definitely have some fun. I recommend this play, and think it especially suited to a college/young adult production.

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