Maxim Boon, Journalist

"I knew there were a lot of people who were just desperate and needed to hear this kind of story."

"Who needs Trump, when political theatre can be this damn powerful."

"I'm still bringing my aesthetic and my irreverence and my queerness to the way I'm reading the work."

"An extraordinary window on the violence of this illness but also on the tenacity of the human spirit."

"We may believe that our relationship to the world is entirely cerebral, but that just isn't true. In the end, we're all just a bag of chemicals and hormones."

"I want my mind blown. If my mind is blown, then the audience's mind is going to be blown. It's that simple."

"I felt like it was an unfunny joke that I was doing intentionally, and that's one of the central principles of comedy: manufacture a failure, then save it."

"It's certainly informed by the terror we find in those more familiar apocalyptic stories. But this play is more about how you live with that dread, how you exist day to day under a cloud of danger."