Neal Weaver – LA Weekly
Chris Phillips’ cannily written play examines the need to stand up against oppression and avenge violence with violence versus the necessity for love and forgiveness. The six scenes are alternately comic, brutal and surreal. The piece initially seems fragmented, but the interrelatedness of the scenes, and their thematic unity, gradually emerge.
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David C. Nichols – LA Times
A potent charge of relevant provocation propels “revolver” at the Celebration Theatre. In the final production at its longtime venue, L.A.’s flagship gay theater scores a profoundly affecting bull’s-eye with Chris Phillips’ incisive study of violence and forgiveness, as expressed in societal, personal and even eternal terms. Read more…