Sardines (a comedy about death) Reviews

Stage and Cinema - Highly Recommended

"...In Sardines, playwright and performer Chris Grace asks the audience to imagine a screen on the stage and then conducts a slide show of imaginary photos projected on the screen we imagine. Standing on stage with an equally imaginary clicker, he starts by “showing” us a slide of his family taken in 2011 standing in front of his sister’s house. Then he tells us that five of those in the photograph are now dead. This includes nearly everyone in Grace’s family, including some who were in their forties at the time of death. The inherent humor in the situation—watching a slideshow with invisible slides—helps to undercut the shock of this information. Grace reads a poem written by his mother shortly before her death that begins “People are the same / we all want the same thing.”"