←Recommendations of The Last Great Act of Mankind

This script plays out a scenario many of us have thought of in a clever and satisfying way.

Great play about the end of days and what two people do with the time they have left. Sickles offers up two friends who find some deeper meaning in what that term actually means and we are all left a little better for reading this gem of a play.

This play is heartbreaking, and not because the end of the world is imminent. Scott does such a good job at making big catastrophes intimate (see the Second World Trilogy if you don't believe me). You find yourself rooting for Lars and Benno, and hoping the meteor will hold off long enough for them to resolve their issues.

Absolutely wonderful play with a fantastic combo of scary and surreal situation and two human beings alone together who need love. It's also very funny while being touching and tender and sad. Highly recommend!

There's something hopeful in this end of the world play. The love between two very good friends, even if it doesn't include sex, can be extremely intimate and beautiful. This play is true love. And only those with true love can calmly watch the world burn together.

Scott Sickles's sharply clever and sexy comedy forces us to look at who we'd want to be with at the end of the world and maybe our responses would surprise us. The humor gives way to tenderness and even sadness as like most great romantic stories we hope for a positive outcome for the lovers whether or not that's a reality. Sickles also gets bonus points for using characters with nontraditional body types which is something we don't see enough of in LGBTQ+ theatre, or theatre in general.

Even at the end of the world, the most important thing to us is a connection to another human being. Scott Sickles brings this into sharp focus by showing us the bond between two men in the midst of a global catastrophe. Rather than spend time, trying to fix things, or escape, the two men share a few last minutes of intimacy. One willing, the other not, but who recognizes the need of the other and does his best to comfort his friend, it really is a story of how important human interaction is, and should be.

Scott Sickles has this wondrous ability to take huge life-changing events and make them personal, relatable, and most of all, touching. Be it a story of apocalyptic climate change or a tsunami, his characters connect on such a level that what's happening around them becomes a way to show the intimate moments that really matter. And he does it in a way that includes honesty, humility, and with deadpan humor of exactly the right amount.

The end of all “mankind” in the hands of Scott Sickles becomes hilarious and heartbreaking. An almost slice-of-life glimpse into two just-friends evolves into an epic tale of unrequited love and loss. Humanity is doomed, but Sickles deftly turns the tables on us and uses his distinct characters’ voices to make us laugh through it all. Sweet, sad, and really hysterical. A wonder.

Sickles is in fine form with this apocalyptic dark comedy. Mixing nihilism and lust in equal doses, he creates a world on the brink of destruction that, while terrifying, is not without its tender, beautiful, and deeply human moments. We should all be lucky enough to go out with this kind of Sicklesian style.