Shawn Says: Puppets, Pride, and Fringe Magic
“a time-traveling love story that gracefully flips between past and present, drawing poignant parallels without ever feeling preachy”
June 5, 2025
“a time-traveling love story that gracefully flips between past and present, drawing poignant parallels without ever feeling preachy”
The production is funny, heartwarming, and richly entertaining. It delivers harsh truths about immigrant experiences. The structure of the play is strong–it allows us to
Mr. Chace’s villainy is perfection: exhibited clearly while still maintaining brilliant restraint, somehow making Iago even more sinister.
The actors are succeeding in exactly what the play demands: exposing the ugliness beneath carefully constructed civility.
From the beginning, the emotions are so palpable that the language almost became secondary.