Scene4 Magazine | Qreviews

This two-hander by Corey Patrick (who also acts in it, with Cass Buggé) details how Danny and Lilly handle the death of their father, who was, at least as they tell it, a pathetic monster. Danny stayed in Minnesota to care for the father during his five years of falling apart while Lilly ran away to Manhattan and a life. As is usual in this genre of dead-parent family-dysfunction plays, there is much sturm and much drang, with accusation leading to revelation and ending with a hang-dog redemption. While well-acted and paced, it doesn't deliver much because there is not much to deliver. So families can be nasty and tender with each other — so what else is new?
Michael Bettencourt