The Dinosaurs

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About the Show

A decades-spanning portrait of women returning weekly to share their recovery stories.

Jacob Perkins’ The Dinosaurs follows a group of women who meet in the same place week after week to talk candidly about recovery. As time stretches from weeks into years, and the world outside changes in ways they can barely recognize, the ritual of returning persists. The play traces how connection, habit, and shared history accumulate across eras, examining the tension between holding tight to what anchors us and the ongoing work of learning to release what no longer serves.

Critic Reviews (9)

"A show entirely made of buildup that does not bother with a payoff, like a magic trick that’s all misdirection and no rabbit."
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“The Dinosaurs commits to the feeling of leaving a room with an unspoken story suspended in the air.”
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"Through their congregation, mutable yet constant, the play demonstrates the healing power of other people’s stories. "
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“The Dinosaurs executes its purpose in a swift 70 minutes, when I felt as if I could happily have sat there with these women for a few more hours.”
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"The Dinosaurs never fully probes the fascinating contradiction at its core...runs out the clock without welcoming us in."
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“The emotions are there, we can perhaps identify with them, but we're stopped a little short of being moved.”
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"Beautifully written, the play, however, feels thin and repetitious and doesn’t seem to get anywhere."
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"full of moments that seem positively banal. But the banality engenders a feeling of authenticity, and the authenticity at its best – rendered by some of the finest stage actresses working in New York"
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