”Not a moment is wasted in keeping the audience entertained . . . The ensemble cast work perfectly together, their timing and physical comedy couldn't have been more in tune. Reck and Alys are an energetic team working in harmony and are a delight to watch. The script by Caroline Reck is as whimsical as it is passionate and ingenious . . .”
Simple Sundries is first and foremost a human comedy, drawing humor from our foibles and frailties . . . The gentle satirical jabs at life in our town in this moment serve to keep us mindful of what's going on around us, to note when something has gone missing and to discover why, to be aware of what makes a home and be vigilant lest we lose one.
Don Quixote de La Redo began as a retelling of the Quixote legend set along the Mexico-Texas border, but took a different and darker turn after the 2016 presidential election, after our current president announced plans to build a giant wall along our country's southern border. As serious as the subject matter could be, the entire play crackles with humor – humor of all kinds, everything from literary references to dry wit to a good old-fashioned diarrhea joke.
. . . Twin currents of good cheer and imagination pull us away from the realities of our world into an oceanic realm that's enchanted, eccentric, and fun, where puns are as plentiful as plankton, where our watery heroine has an appealingly earthy side, where the inanimate plastic castoffs of the surface world come to life as talking cups heartsick for the people who drank out of them, takeout-food clamshells that need their teeth brushed, and clear vinyl umbrellas that pulsate and propel themselves like jellyfish. It's like The Little Mermaid was imagineered not by Disney, but by the Pee-wee's Playhouse gang.
