←Recommendations of ROAD KILLS

Seeing this play was an unforgettable experience. It's funny and disturbing, often in the same breath. It's a tense, electric, and brilliant work from Sophie. Great scene work for two actors as well!

Many of Sophie's plays are sincere explorations of f*cked up people trying to do the best they can. Road Kills exemplifies this as these complicated characters clean up the roads in hopes they can eventually clean up their own lives. I love how scene after scene of carcasses eventually inures us to death and how delightfully intentional that is. Sophie McIntosh is a real talent!

Sophie McIntosh maintains her crown as the queen of the weird and somewhat fucked up. Utilizing her Midwest upbringing (and as someone who grew up there), Sophie beautifully weaves the absurd with the monotony of living in Wisconsin. A literal feast in rich character study and deep darkness rearing its ugly head.

This is genuinely one of my favourite plays of all time. It's almost ineffable how incredible it is. The way I felt watching this play is how I want to feel every time I watch a play.

Mcintosh deals with very difficult subject matter in this play—sometimes you literally want to look away (I don't think I'm spoiling anything, based on the title). She forces us to confront what we would rather let someone else cover up. We never think about who deals with our waste and our damage. Sophie wrote a whole play about it. And it's disturbing, provoking, and FUNNY. Loved the structure of one 'kill' per scene, and the unraveling of the darkness shared between these two characters.

McIntosh has a gift among gifts: a fine tuning into what makes an audience lean in, and what makes them recoil in their seats. Road Kills was a visceral, communal experience not unlike riding a rollercoaster, charming us with a titillating ride to the peak before plunging us into the stomach-churning drop of a lifetime. McIntosh fearlessly asks us to interrogate our empathic impulses in the face of taboo, and we can't help but follow her every step of the way.

This play went places I really wasn't expecting. A play about two lost individuals that for a time feel comfort in each other. A play that asks if it's possible to make amends for terrible things we've done. This is one I'm gonna be thinking about for a long while.