World premiere drama at City Lights Theater finds students who survived a school shooting improbably gathered in the room where horror struck.
Five years after a school shooting, surviving students gather in the room where it happened in “Toxic.”Late in the City Lights Theater Company world premiere production of “Toxic,” former student Jessie takes her fellow high school alums through a harrowing moment when she witnessed a popular teacher gunned down just feet from where she now stood. The recollection is a crushing reminder of how innocent lives can shatter in a split-second.
Playwright Kit Wilder’s intention of crafting an explosive narrative often buckles under the weight of its own ambition. The dialogue leans too far into proselytizing, the sheer number of actors in the cast diluting the 80-minute play’s impact. One of the biggest issues of the play is asked by Jake , when he defiantly states, “Are we supposed to know what we’re all doing here?”
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