Review: Circus Girl by Hat Tree Theatricals

by David Glen Robinson
Published on June 16, 2013

The most effective and powerful segments of the play were Circus Girl’s dreams in times of deepest despair. They were not visionary or revelatory and certainly not premonitory; they're probably best described as hallucinatory agonies.

Circus Girl, written by Rocky Hopson, is a coming-of-age play like few others. Set in the 1890s in the Midwest and Rocky Mountains, the play proceeds initially like the adventures of one of many “Little Nells” of the dime novels of that time. If those stories had finished with any of the realism and hard times of that age depicted in this play, very few “Little Nells” would have survived to tell the tale. 'Circus …

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