←Recommendations of Chagutok

Absolutely masterful. Any genre savvy reader will get a sense early on of the hard sci-fi Gatton is going to mess with, but few playwrights are able to ground such high concepts so naturally and so deeply in well-drawn characterization. I am obsessed with this script. It is so easily stageable! But make no mistake that it is an epic of hope, love, and truly the beauty of what unites all of humanity. Simultaneously intimate and cosmic in scope, somebody produce this gahtdamb thing.

In this pink and green borealis-lit play, our four protagonists seeking solace in solitude & the pursuit of answers, find themselves together on a rock where lights from above, as well as bodies & fainting, occur with regularity. What is the point? What if it's not the answers, but the questions, that illuminate the ties that bind? Gatton's got a knack for the magic and the sci-fi, and for tying it all in a big twilight zone, marrow-gratifying bow of the love we didn't know we so deeply needed.

"Here we go" indeed. Again. All it takes is a "leap" forward, always forward even though everything seems to be moving backward. Bravo, Vince Gatton for this stunning "work in progress"--isn't it all?

While these quirky, flawed characters may initially be hard to love, I'll be damned if I didn't care about them all by the end of the play! This play has eerie ambiance, a clever expository device, and multiple driving mysteries, ranging from the scientific to the supernatural, which kept me engaged and questioning throughout... and I LOVE that there are enough little clues and hints that I was rewarded for paying attention! I love the gorgeous message that grief is what love looks like divorced from time. I laughed (really), I cried (really), I gasped (really). A truly rewarding read!