Description

Character Breakdown

2 Men

History

Commissioned by The Drilling Company for HONOR.

Productions

New York

78th Street Theatre Lab in The Drilling Company's HONOR, Margarett Perry, Director

Publication

Plays and Playwrights 2005 (published by The New York Theatre Experience).  Mick Just Shrugs is one of seven plays included in a collection titled HONOR.

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Readings

Imagine Festival of Arts, Issues and Ideas 2004, Director, Margarett Perry

Press

"The attention-getter on Honor's itinerary is Brian Dykstra's Mick Just Shrugs, which opens the evening. It's about a high school student named Mick whose art project features an American flag getting soaked in lighter fluid and then set afire by a Bunsen burner; the press release promises that a flag will indeed be burned during the performance. I wondered how it would feel; Dykstra makes it a supremely cathartic act of desperation, signifying where too many of us seem to be vis-a-vis rousing ourselves to activism against the current regime in this country: Mick Just Shrugs-such the right title, by the way-is about anomie fueled by inertia among grown-ups who ought to know better. It's very much a play for our time."

Martin Denton, NYTheatre.com
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