Reviews for Summer Break Theatre Performances
Review: Thank You and Have A Nice Day by Summer Break Theatre
by David Glen Robinson
Published on June 17, 2023
Monroe Oxley's quirky play about quirky people, a "trailer court" comedy without the trailer, is enjoyable—turning to tragedy, it only gets funnier.
Summer Break Theatre is largely a company of theatre teachers available to produce only one play a year as a group, during summer break. They are not alone in that: most theatre pros in Central Texas support themselves with career jobs outside theatre. Those full-time jobs are vocational activities, side hustles that provide almost all their income in our increasingly expensive Austin. Acknowledging that, Summer Break Theatre puts it all into one production per year. …
Review: Cul-de-Sac by Summer Break Theatre
by Brian Paul Scipione
Published on July 22, 2019
CUL-DE-SAC is billed as a comedy, which provides it the shield of satire, but watching these characters flounder made one feel like a mischievous but indifferent kid observing ants through a magnifying glass.
It somehow seems that a cul-de-sac is less sinister than a dead-end street, though in truth they are the essentially the same thing. Sure, a cul-de-sac implies a circular dead end that makes turning the car around or escaping, if you will, much easier. Cul-de-sac translates directly from the French as ‘bottom of the bag’ which may also sound negative if you interpret an empty bag or sack as containing nothing. Or, more to …