Reviews for The Zahir Performances
Review #3 of 3: OVERSIGHT by LB Deyo, The Zahir
by Brian Paul Scipione
Published on August 14, 2026
LB Deyo's OVERSIGHT is frightening because these characters are making decisions about AI but not one of them is objective. More harrowing still: it's unlikely any such committee actually exists.
There will be no intermission. In fact, there is nothing at all that can stop this train as it hurtles blindly into an unknown future with no headlight all the while gaining momentum at a hyper algorithmic pace. Last year saw the debut of LB Deyo’s dark, psychological thriller Apprehension which could be also described as a horror story. His newest work Oversight is much more disturbing, if only because it concerns not just the …
Review #2 of 3: Oversight by The Zahir
by David Glen Robinson
Published on August 10, 2026
High expectations of LB Deyo's haven't been disappointed. Urgent debate and engimatic argument in the sealed chamber beneath the U.S. Capitol could mirror what's happening right now in Washington.
The stage setting is a long, curved conference table with a stenographer’s table far downstage, practically in the audience. To this reviewer, the set was reminiscent of the long table set for Annie Baker’s The Antipodes. That play never really revealed a subject of its fictional project, but Oversight throws down innumerable hard, mostly threatening facts about our current state and potential future. We quickly see that the stage conference room represents a SCIF conference …
Review #1 of 3: Oversight by LB Deyo, The Zahir
by Michael Meigs
Published on August 07, 2026
The pleasures of Oversight are the puzzle, the menace, LB Deyo's vigorous meaty dialogue, and the all too real and contemporary nature of the dilemma.
Their deliberations take place in a dim and featureless congressional committee room. Some are annoyed that security was so tight. The Vice President, a weedy Texan, tries to joke about it but no one pays attention to him (remember Sam Rayburn’s description of that position as “pitcher of warm spit”?). This is a curiously constituted group, chaired by a congressional representative but including the VP, the Secretary of State, a grumpy four-star general, and single …