What I love about this piece besides basically everything is how it plays in so many spaces at the same time (suspense, romance, travelogue) without seeming over-stuffed or unsure of what it is. And what it is is a marvelously unique piece about connections, disconnections, and all the heartbreaks in between. The sense of place is very real yet playful at the same time, and it offers us "fish out of water" characters played without all of the stock tropes. Sickles just never fails to dazzle.

Don’t you just love to dive into a script and know by the end of the first page that you’re in capable hands? It’s always immediately evident with the work of Scott Sickles. He writes dialogue and characters steeped in authenticity. In The Battlements, he takes us to a different world with dazzling theatricality and gives us a budding love story between two strangers who are united by their immersion in a new land but also by their similar past traumas. This play is moving. It’s beautiful.

Scott Sickles has done it again. He wrote a damn masterpiece. Again. And this time, my jealousy gets to be bilingual. Ai~ ssi! This is a beautifully constructed play with a tension that builds and builds. As always, I am in awe of how Scott’s dialogue delivers the very core of his characters with such ease and accessibility. Even in Korean. So..sure… kudos to Scott Sickles. But know I am still grumpy about how good this is.