Orange County Register says Such Small Hands is “hard to forget”!
“Szymkowicz’s one-act, 75-minute deft exploration might sound bleak, but he’s a terrific conveyor of dialogue. The looping conversations that twist and turn through “Such Small Hands” echo playwright Samuel Beckett’s famous pauses.”
“And those Beckett-like moments can veer into unexpected humor.”
“Here, we are gifted with a veteran playwright’s talent for weaving together his characters’ naturalistic conversations with seemingly invisible plotting.”
“There’s lovely acting at work here, both individually, but especially in the interactions between the couple.”
“Goodrich corners Paul’s now fleeting emotional states from line to line, mixing slightly paranoid cringes as well as spasms of the pain that’s physically diminishing him.”
“Fischer funds Marie with wary patience — exhaustion seeping through the veneer, particularly when she addresses the audience in spoken asides”
“On its small second stage, Chance surrounds the play’s events in suitably handsome fashion.”
“At one point, Marie mutters in passing the banality “who can remember?” The dreadful irony of that phrase lands in the moment. Also, on stage here, are a few moments that likely will be hard to forget.”
Read the latest review of Such Small Hands from Orange County Register HERE.
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