Certainly not an easy play to grasp in terms of the meaning we're "supposed to" come away with, but powerfully ambiguous anyway. "Frozen" becomes a welcome antidote to our world's obsession with the surface of crime, such as CSI and all the popular forensic shows which center on solving the unsolvable. Here, the 3 main characters are the mother of a murdered daughter, the serial killer who killed her, and the academic studying the killer for signs and clues about why he turned out as he did.

It' More...

A very fluid and well written play. Difficult subject matter for sure. Not easy to stomach and I felt a little unsettled with some of the choices for the characters. But, just my opinion. Would be interesting to see it staged.

This is a fascinating play. The subject matter is visceral - specifically the serial killing of children, and generally what we become when we get locked inside grief. Lavery tells her story as a formalist, relying on direct-audience address as the vehicle for forward action. It makes the play a difficult read but I imagine a powerful performance, because the form becomes theme, where the pain of facing death in its brutality and capriciousness tempts us to isolate. A test of a play's strength f More...

Might look and sound better on the stage but I found reading the play to be sort of a sterile experience.

malcolm gladwell's What the dog saw

Just read it. It is the most moving, spine tingling play I have ever read and had the fortune to see.

Review is here:
http://revingsblog.blogspot.com/2011/...

Not for the faint of heart... but breathtakingly constructed.

Curious Theatre 2006