←Recommendations of Lobster Man (Full-length version)

This post-apocalyptic play is surprisingly optimistic about the human condition. I love a play about community care and how much we need each other, and this one certainly fits the bill. This is lovely, challenging work for actors. Check it out!

This post-apocalyptic play flies by, thanks mostly to the great dialogue and wonderful characters. It's about the need for human connection (I loved how they kept touching each other when they realized they weren't alone in the world - completely platonically, just a desperate human need for touch), and the play also serves as a beautiful example of how the arts (pictures, music, stories) are lifelines, not luxuries, when everything falls apart. This play is beautiful and tragic, sad and hopeful all rolled into one. Plus, with one location and a small cast, it could &should be easily staged everywhere.

Two lonely survivors build a connection in a vividly rendered post-apocalyptic world. This play is a profound and gripping exploration of that need for connection and of dealing with grief and loss. The hypnotic and hallucinatory figure of Lobster Man heralds an irrevocable transition and leaves one of the survivors to fulfill a life sustaining promise. Mark and Christa are boon companions, to us as well as to each other, and it is exhilarating to share their well-crafted journey.

This is both a striking, intimate exploration of a relationship as well as a meditation on grief, life and death, and the life-sustaining power of connection with another person. The scenes are spare and elegantly written, and there is so much to play with here visually and auditorally for directors and designers. I'd love to see this staged!

Cook creates a wholly unique world that blends expressionism with the post-apocalyptic survival story. Within this place, he slowly unveils a deeply moving story about love, loss, and new beginnings.