Naomi Skwarna, Toronto Standard: A sly exploration of identity politics and the hounding force of memory. The dialogue is deceptively casual; it’s light-sounding, but loaded with meaning from beat-to-beat.
Lynn Slotkin, The Slotkin Letter: Playwright Christopher Shinn digs deep into the hearts and minds of siblings, certainly twins, relationships and the secrets even people who are close, hide from each other.
Jon Kaplan and Glenn Sumi, NOW Magazine: Christopher Shinn’s script, sometimes intense and sometimes comic, explores the desires of each character, the need both to love and be loved. A successful look at the stop-and-start nature of human affection and the difficulty of reclaiming those once close.
Saw Dying City this weekend – twice. Taken by the emotions, motivations, needs of the characters. Family secrets, family dynamics all captured so realistically. It just screamed honesty. Of course, the actors that breathed life into these words were magnificent…kudos to them. The words they had to work with were amazing…my thanks to you for providing them. Hope to see this work again, as well as others authored by you! My thanks to everyone involved.
Thank you for this, Steve. I so wish I could see this production!