Review: STATIC: An Evening of Casey Wimpee Transmissions by Theatre Synesthesia

by Michael Meigs
Published on June 10, 2018

Playwright Casey Wimpee writes dialogue so stessed that it’s practically projectile. It’s vivid, unpredictable, at times horrific. Perfect actor bait: these performers, all devoted to the power of language, must have shivered in anticipation when first reading this script.

  Theatre Synesthesia keeps you in dim light looking down into the pit for Casey Wimpee’s Static, which seems entirely appropriate. The playwright’s vision for these short pieces is not unlike that of Dante looking down into lower circles of hell.       You’ll be visiting first with a manic soul who doesn’t at first realize he has passed away. Instead of the poet Virgil as his guide, Brett Howard will have Nicolas Kier as a hectic …

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Review: The Brutes by Theatre Synesthesia

by Michael Meigs
Published on December 06, 2017

Playwright Casey Wimpee has a lot of exposition and an armload of characters to present, and his meta- approach to the material doesn't make it any easier. This confident and capable cast included faces new to me.

  Playwright Casey Wimpee found an extravagant gang whose story begged to be told: the Booth family of mid-19th-century Maryland, which included the three illegitimate sons and a daughter of the august Shakespearian William Junius Booth, Sr. After you see the staging by Austin's Theatre Synesthesia in the cramped but welcoming locale of the Back Pack on east Cesar Chavez, you may well be tempted to spend some time on Wikipedia, verifying details and anecdotes. …

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