“ Caught this on "Playing On Air," and was immediately drawn into a zone of war we don't often see -- the neighborhoods of everyday Iraqis trying to carry on their lives despite having forcibly been made targets. Where bombs go off with so much regularity they don't stop a daily trip to the grocer, even if one bomb just nearly obliterated the shop. The characters here are both hardened by and terrified of the reality besieging them. Routines become rituals of survival. And the need to find meaning somewhere manifests itself in the simplest of acts. Powerful and moving. ”

“ Good lord, this is heartbreakingly existential, a picture of a man disconnected from himself and possibly the one person who ever loved him. Our hero has gone emotionally numb, thanks to a recent traumatic brain injury, and like his memories, everything in his own home looks the same but has lost all true meaning for him. And despite his ex-lover’s attempts to reconnect him with himself, he only seems to become more isolated, remote, alienated. How does one go on? Scott Sickles has done an amazing job of making you feel the void that could trap anyone. ”

“ This short play is long on painful family history and its lingering damage. Its setting – in the heartland of America – resonates on more than one level, and the characters’ individual strengths and weaknesses are plain to see. An undercurrent of sadness runs through the piece, but Diane Hightower makes it dramatic and involving. A moving piece, and a great vehicle for three actors. ”

“ Audrey Webb has written a poignant mix of elegy and drama – with the right amount of humor laced in – about a teenage boy trying to come to terms with the looming death of his cancer-stricken twin sister, who’s already accepted her fate. We watch as he tries, with her help, to work through his guilt and fear as well as a need to apologize for something he did long ago. Webb has built the kind of fragile, charged atmosphere that touches the heart. A lovely, sad piece that leads to a sense of grace. ”