OUTPOST should be the kind of play that in the hands of a less skilled playwright should be a boring exercise in the absurdity of the human condition and our inevitable destiny. Scott Sickles, however, is no such playwright. Instead of the banal, Sickles creates a story and ends on an image that would give the legendary kiss of Gone With the Wind or the passion of Godard's Le Mépris a run for its money. But, more, much more than imagery and inverting of an old trope is how Sickles presents us the triumph of Love over the Silence.
OUTPOST should be the kind of play that in the hands of a less skilled playwright should be a boring exercise in the absurdity of the human condition and our inevitable destiny. Scott Sickles, however, is no such playwright. Instead of the banal, Sickles creates a story and ends on an image that would give the legendary kiss of Gone With the Wind or the passion of Godard's Le Mépris a run for its money. But, more, much more than imagery and inverting of an old trope is how Sickles presents us the triumph of Love over the Silence.