10-4: The Truck Stop Plays Reviews
Chicago Reader- Somewhat Recommended
"...This may be good for the writers in the long term. But the result is an evening of half-baked work, enlivened by moments of deep-dish Chicago-style acting. SarahJayne Ashenhurst and Elizabeth Birnkrant are particularly intense as an unlikely contract killer and her narcissistic client in Ryan Patrick Dolan's Burger King."
Time Out Chicago- Somewhat Recommended
...While The Truck Stop Plays mostly succeeds in comedy, it fails to build the dramatic oomph some of its pieces aim for. An hour running time for four plays leaves only about 15 minutes per show, which isn't enough for Tyler JC Whidden's Detour, about siblings coming to terms with the loss of their mother, to justify the full arc it presents. Likewise, in Anthony Ellison's Standin' Water, a nurse/gas station attendant (Cat Abood) woos an injured man (Ryan Heywood) against the will of a plumber/Sheriff (Damian Anaya). It's not clear what exactly Ellison is going for, here. What is clear, though, is that each piece contains a few gems in works still very much in development."