←Recommendations of Clockwork

A thought-provoking Möbius strip of a play, grounded in characters who truly care for each other, but are in their own ways unreachable. A lovely meditation on love, time, and regret. A taut ten minutes of theatre with much to offer for both the head and the heart.

Excellent ten minute play. Exciting to explore not only the time travel but the personal relationships and how they change but also remain the same and what it is to dig up the past over and over again.

As a sci-fi fan, I was immediately invested from the engaging opening monologue. From there, the audience is taken on a reflective path considering grief, priorities, and timing. Pulling on the heart-strings, CLOCKWORK provides poignancy wrapped in the intrigue of science fiction.

A riveting play that skillfully deals with the complexities of time, regret, and personal relationships, leaving the audience with a lingering sense of reflection.

Oh I do love a good time travel piece, although this is a far more clever paly than just that. If time travel is possible, do we even want it? Every theory seems to suggest it's a bad idea, and can we do anything to stop the passage of time even if we could. Or are we?
This subject throws up so many questions, and this play is a fine example.

I am a huge fan of the "came back wrong" trope, and this "kitchen sink sci-fi" concept is such an inventive way to play with it! This play toes the line between 'botched resurrection' and 'end of the time loop' - arguably the best parts of any science-horror story! It's a sharp and efficient tragedy that reveals itself a little more with each page. It's entirely dialogue-driven and easy to produce, making genre theatre more accessible for theatres with any budget. Best of all, it will be relatable to nearly anyone who has been lost in a quagmire of grief.

A chilling sci-fi thriller! Brenton Kniess packs a lot of tension and emotion into ten well-crafted minutes. You can’t help but feel Nick’s pain, particularly with the ending, which is more like another beginning. Well done!

A clever and suspenseful ouroboros that explores grief, culpability, and the space-time continuum – all in ten fast-paced pages! Kniess keeps us guessing up to the moment when he pierces our hearts, as we realize Nick’s painful, inexorable fate. A very thought-provoking short play.

I am reminded of a quote from movie The Time Machine, “We all have our time machines, don't we? Those that take us back are memories... And those that carry us forward, are dreams.” Brenton Kniess manages to give us a sci-fi epic in a quiet gathering in an apartment.

Clock Work is a suspenseful, grab you from the start, work. It strings you along like a tense rope.
While imagining Nick’s living room, I pictured Rod Serling in the corner behind a potted plant, curled in cigarette smoke. This play begs to be drawn out. There’s much to work with. Well done, Brenton!