←Recommendations of Clockwork

This short play has so much in it that it is almost begging to be longer; what Brenton Kneiss achieves in a few minutes is to offer well drawn characters and a plot with great tension and mystery. Tension is created from the off and grows throughout - the audience is left with a dozen or more questions - cracking stuff!

How can Nick come to your wedding, Jonah, when he knows there isn't going to be one? Time travel turns out to be trap for Nick, not a gift. His palpable misery is as compelling as Jonah's frustration and Ava's acceptance. This is a clever story with a real heart.

A moment in time. A moment we may want to relive, yet we make things worse because of it. A moment that is dark without a beacon of hope. KNIESS' play shows brilliance and how one moment in time can bring out the worse of family dynamics.

Who doesn't love the idea of time travel? Of being able to go back and possibly correct a mistake, right a wrong, fix something broken, turn a negative into a positive. We've all wondered about it. BUT... what if you could... and it didn't fix? What hell that would be. And Brenton Kniess illustrates this concept brilliantly in a family drama with a nightmare fate coming their way, and no amount of time can change it. This terrific play both entertains and horrifies you. A piece that needs to be produced.

What WOULD happen if we could time travel? Brenton Kniess's play gives us a eye-opening glimpse at this possibility and it will make your skin crawl. Even so,the entire premise is executed so skillfully. The dialogue remains measured and convincing. It pulled me right in.

Brenton Kneiss put together an interesting short exercising the classic time-loop trap. Nick’s pain is evident in his dealings with his brother and ex- girlfriend. This promising short could be crafted into a nice fuller one-act. Great premise and execution.