Retrograde - Reviews

These reviews are for the original production at Actor's Theatre, Santa Cruz.

The play since received its New York premiere at a sold out limited Equity showcase by Streetlight Players.

• Winner, Fourth Annual Ten-Minute Playwrighting Contest
• Full production, sold out five week run
• Monterey Herald :
  "Retrograde, written by Doug Brook... is a trim, minimalist piece, examining the failed trajectory of an office romance. ...feisty performances in a clever piece, which makes a pithy comment on the power of entropy."
• Good Times :
  "Magnificent works like those by... Doug Brook neatly encapsulate the elliptical, cyclical, and fickle nature of romance... In Brook's Retrograde, a short study of an office romance gone bad then good... (the actors) tell as much of the story with facial expressions and body English as with actual lines -- adding a tense subtext, a sort-of psychological dance that demonstrates much of their characters' ever-shifting emotional states."
• The Register :
  "'Retrograde' (by Doug Brook...) is an enigmatic non-linear bit of romantic comedy that compresses an entire affair into short sound bites and ends up back at the beginning with little having actually been disclosed."