Offal Endings
Offal Endings
79% 7 reviews
79%
(7 Ratings)
Positive
57%
Mixed
43%
Negative
0%
Members say
Clever, Quirky, Funny, Absorbing, Ambitious

In a world where the suicide hotline has been privatized, two people face off against corruption.

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Critic Reviews (2)

TheaterScene.net
January 17th, 2023

Offal Endings is billed as "a dark comedy" but it is more of a drama with some comedic elements. It grapples with complicated subjects and is not always successful. It "reads" better than it plays, which is not to say that it is a bad play, just that it needs more structure in its story development and execution. The topics it touches on are important given the increased commercialization in the delivery of medical care and, more importantly, psychological care in the complex socio-political environment of the present and near future economy. It presents challenging ideas but doesn’t clarify the challenges those ideas represent.
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Theaterscene.org
January 17th, 2023

Shades of Michael Crichton’s paranoiac medical milieu are melded with Paddy Chayefsky’s wild societal prescience, for a thoughtfully entertaining 90 minutes. However, this premiere production is structured as a series of brief scenes, some are too brief and some silent ones particularly at the start seem extraneous. The result is that at times the play comes across more as a film treatment rather than a fully realized stage piece.
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