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Patrick Vermillion

Recommended by Patrick Vermillion

  • Time is a Color and the Color is Blue by Melanie Coffey
    1 Oct. 2022
    “ Melanie's play proposes a framework for the future of climate change theatre: when we transition from anger to acceptance as mankind's self-destruction becomes less theoretical and more inevitable. How do we reckon with ourselves as the world collapses in on us? What will we have left and how will we find redemption? It's a refreshing, innovative, and compelling take on how art can help us process the existentially unimaginable. Structured unlike anything else I've read or seen in quite some time. It's marvelous ”
  • Things That Are Round by Callie Kimball
    26 Aug. 2022
    “ Saw a production of this really wonderful play. A refreshing two-hander that consistently surprises and refuses to cede any easy answers from two deeply complex characters. It surprised me throughout, and I loved being alternatively disgusted and endeared by this bizarre characters ”
  • Chebutykin (Irina swallows a diamond) by Christiane Swenson
    11 Sep. 2021
    “ This play's brilliance lies in it's ability to pull Chekov's themes of isolation, yearning, and melancholy, connecting them to the post-pandemic modern world. But the play is not limited by it's relationship to the piece it's narratively preceding. In fact, it boldly asserts new ideas that both compliment and challenge 100+ year source material. It evolves past it's identity as a companion piece, into it's own thematically rich original work. ”
  • Today/Tonight/Soon by Melanie Coffey
    27 Jul. 2021
    “ The generations beyond us will be punished for crimes they never committed. They'll be educated about the horrific things people did to this Earth, and they'll know that life was once different. Melanie's play brilliantly captures the haunting melancholic experience of growing up in a future doomed by the past. But she never lets the characters wallow in apocalyptic despair. Radically, they carve out their own life and reclaim their autonomy. A play that imagines and demands a better future in the face of insurmountable change. A play about hope in the inevitable! ”
  • Come When I Call by Melanie Coffey
    27 Feb. 2020
    “ Melanie has a knack for finding the the most compelling ways human beings struggle between their feelings and their sense of morality. Each character is a complex tour de force, the kind any actor would love to dive deep into and the play never settles on letting one character completely turn villainous or heroic. By the end you end up asking yourself how you would approach this situation and the answers are terrifying but exhilarating. A deeply complex portrait of an under-portrayed situation ”
  • H*TLER'S TASTERS by Michelle Kholos Brooks
    13 Jul. 2019
    “ I saw this play at North Shore Performing Arts center on July 12th, 2019. This play has a phenomenal premise, and manages to overcome some of it's more shocking elements to be both funny and endearing. I think most surprising was how I thought I was able to separate myself from these characters and label them as awful people, until circumstances and suddenly I found myself scared for their lives. Effective, moving and funny! ”
  • An Actor by Erika Hakmiller
    18 Jun. 2019
    “ A sharp and funny short play that refuses to pull punches in its depiction of a selfish but all-to-familiar aspiring artist. The kind of play that will sit with its audience long after it's performed. Couples who see this together be warned! ”
  • It Be Like That by Ray Goldberg
    18 Jun. 2019
    “ A humorous, beautiful, and undeniably groundbreaking piece of theatre that brings ideas and themes to the table I have never seen in the mainstream show. It thrives on a deeply personal story that manages to achieve a universality without sacrificing its unique specificity and well-drawn characters ”
  • White or Garden in the Tin Can by Liam Fitzgerald
    18 Jun. 2019
    “ A refreshingly dark Science Fiction piece that resists the tired romanticism and fantastical tropes of its genre. Rather, White is a brutal depiction of humanity in an unsettlingly plausible future. But it's harsh feasibility is accompanied with wondrous moments of expressionism, which helps assert its undeniable theatricality. ”
  • The Curse of Giles Corey by Dolores Díaz
    18 Jun. 2019
    “ Equal parts humorous and terrifying, Curse of Giles Corey connects seemingly unrelated events in American history to create a powerful statement on the country's dark authoritative history. But it shines in its offbeat, unassuming humor, which adds a Coen Brothers-like dark comedy to the mix without ever succumbing to an easy nihilistic conclusion. Rather, the play, despite all odds, manages to delve into some of the darkest parts of American history and come out with an almost optimistic outlook. Or at least one worth debating ”

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