Michael Shaw has directed the two performers with his usual insightful style giving the more dramatic surprises the space they need to score while keeping things moving

Michael Shaw has directed the two performers with his usual insightful style giving the more dramatic surprises the space they need to score while keeping things moving

Stephen Radosh of Gay Desert Guide writes, “Michael Shaw has directed the two performers with his usual insightful style giving the more dramatic surprises the space they need to score while keeping things moving at a clip that prevents the play from slipping into the melodramatic. Both Nathalie Bennett [Marlowe] and Jacob Alden Roa (Danny) deliver performances that make their characters believable people rather than cliched stereotypes. You care about both of them and in this play that is crucial.

“Jimmy Cuomo’s clever set, lit by Phil Murphy’s excellent lighting design, lets us be voyeurs as we watch them through the truck’s windshield. In splitting the truck into two parts, we also observe them dealing with the trash and the mechanisms of the vehicle’s collection equipment at the rear of the truck.”

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