2023 Audience Reviews

Company: Pat O'Brien
Show: "Starved": The Astonishing True Story of the University of Minnesota Starvation Experiment
Venue: Augsburg Mainstage

excellent insight into the cost of pacifism

A well written play with competent acting that explored a mostly forgotten aspect of the cost of war. A stark presentation of both the physical and emotional toll on men who were consciousness objectors during WW2. I wish there could have been a Q&A session with the writer, director and actors. I left with so many questions, so many conflicting emotions. It's not a professional, polished, big budget production like "Oppenheimer" that I watched a few days ago, but this short, spare play addresses so many of the same weighty questions: How can an individual or a group of people working together, make a difference in the face of the evil that is war? And how does that work change their understanding of themselves and others?