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ALIENS! VAMPIRES! ZOMBIES!
ALIENS! VAMPIRES! ZOMBIES!
"This without doubt is probably one of the funniest books I've read."
-Joycedale Chapman, The Fiction Fanatics
"Authors who write zombie comedy have to thread a very slim needle, making sure the reader feels they are in on the joke and not part of it. Go too far one way or the other and an author risks alienating their reader. 1897 threads that needle with flair and finesse."
"When I first started reading this novel, my mind instantly went to Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams. This novel contains that kind of humor, smart and funny with just a hint of snark that all really good humor contains. Add in late 19th century manors of speech and dress and you have the making of a funny novel. But like Pratchett and Adams, the humor is dispersed with telling and serious moments."
"After finishing this novel I felt my ribs were sore from laughing, but I was also a bit sad."
-Beth Besse, Worlds Without End
"I liked it a lot more when I read it a second time. When I didn't focus as much on grammatical errors."
-Sean's mother, who read it even though it really isn't her cup of tea.
-Joycedale Chapman, The Fiction Fanatics
"Authors who write zombie comedy have to thread a very slim needle, making sure the reader feels they are in on the joke and not part of it. Go too far one way or the other and an author risks alienating their reader. 1897 threads that needle with flair and finesse."
"When I first started reading this novel, my mind instantly went to Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams. This novel contains that kind of humor, smart and funny with just a hint of snark that all really good humor contains. Add in late 19th century manors of speech and dress and you have the making of a funny novel. But like Pratchett and Adams, the humor is dispersed with telling and serious moments."
"After finishing this novel I felt my ribs were sore from laughing, but I was also a bit sad."
-Beth Besse, Worlds Without End
"I liked it a lot more when I read it a second time. When I didn't focus as much on grammatical errors."
-Sean's mother, who read it even though it really isn't her cup of tea.
ALL AN ACT
"The script is sharp, witty, and fast paced with characters that are wholly believable, thoroughly relatable and well rounded."
"All An Act is a very clever show, created and performed by an exciting, fresh, young company of creatives. Prepare to be moved, shocked and tickled by this show, but be warned – All An Act will leave you wanting a sequel."
-Marina Spark, The Public Reviews
"All an Act is the backstage view of the circus we think we all know and the people who inhabit it, a blend of heartbreaking and hilarious that is hard to find in new work these days."
-Sarah Elliot, Theatre Devon
"The script is good, fast paced and full of character - keeping its audience involved and entertained throughout - with just the right amount of nods to clowning to keep the theme well and truly in the air."
"All an Act is an enjoyable show that deserves a far bigger audience than it received; I will leave you with my favourite quote ‘why do you say things that make me want to kill you?’ Surely everyone can relate to that."
-Alexandra Baldry, Broadway Baby
"All An Act, by Sean Michael Welch, is outstanding. This intelligent, passionate and challenging two-hander from Depot Theatre examines forensically the layers of truth and lies between friends, lovers, men and women, raising difficult questions with integrity and power."
"Strong language, strong subject matter and strong performances combine to produce an event that is disturbing, thought-provoking and exceptional. Bring on the Clowns."
-Avril Silk, remotegoat
"This show was quite a bit shorter than the drive down to The Bike Shed, let alone the drive back ... but it was worth it, actually, it might even have been worth walking all that way, possibly on my knees, to see it ... or is that going too far?"
"The juxtaposition of the clowning and comedy with the the serious and, at times, pathetic real lives of the two characters is well handled and builds to one of the best written (and most competently handled) on stage arguments I have ever seen."
- UK Theatre Web
BOISE, IDAHO
"...when the writing is at its most original, as is the case with Boise, Idaho... the work is brilliant and comical."
-Adelina Anthony, backstage
"...reality and fiction intertwine in amusing -- now and then hilarious -- fashion."
-Bruce Weber, New York Times
"The first play... 'Boise, Idaho,' is so delicious that it sets perhaps too high a standard for the others to live up to."
"A mixture of Pirandello and 'Seinfeld,' 'Boise, Idaho' almost seems to taunt the whole endeavor of storytelling, and... displays, along with his provocative imagination, an unbridled willingness to let real people behave ridiculously."
-Steven Oxman, Variety
"...a comic style that marries an extremely heightened reality with outrageously exaggerated plot twists."
-Diane Haithman, Los Angeles Times
"The script is sharp, witty, and fast paced with characters that are wholly believable, thoroughly relatable and well rounded."
"All An Act is a very clever show, created and performed by an exciting, fresh, young company of creatives. Prepare to be moved, shocked and tickled by this show, but be warned – All An Act will leave you wanting a sequel."
-Marina Spark, The Public Reviews
"All an Act is the backstage view of the circus we think we all know and the people who inhabit it, a blend of heartbreaking and hilarious that is hard to find in new work these days."
-Sarah Elliot, Theatre Devon
"The script is good, fast paced and full of character - keeping its audience involved and entertained throughout - with just the right amount of nods to clowning to keep the theme well and truly in the air."
"All an Act is an enjoyable show that deserves a far bigger audience than it received; I will leave you with my favourite quote ‘why do you say things that make me want to kill you?’ Surely everyone can relate to that."
-Alexandra Baldry, Broadway Baby
"All An Act, by Sean Michael Welch, is outstanding. This intelligent, passionate and challenging two-hander from Depot Theatre examines forensically the layers of truth and lies between friends, lovers, men and women, raising difficult questions with integrity and power."
"Strong language, strong subject matter and strong performances combine to produce an event that is disturbing, thought-provoking and exceptional. Bring on the Clowns."
-Avril Silk, remotegoat
"This show was quite a bit shorter than the drive down to The Bike Shed, let alone the drive back ... but it was worth it, actually, it might even have been worth walking all that way, possibly on my knees, to see it ... or is that going too far?"
"The juxtaposition of the clowning and comedy with the the serious and, at times, pathetic real lives of the two characters is well handled and builds to one of the best written (and most competently handled) on stage arguments I have ever seen."
- UK Theatre Web
BOISE, IDAHO
"...when the writing is at its most original, as is the case with Boise, Idaho... the work is brilliant and comical."
-Adelina Anthony, backstage
"...reality and fiction intertwine in amusing -- now and then hilarious -- fashion."
-Bruce Weber, New York Times
"The first play... 'Boise, Idaho,' is so delicious that it sets perhaps too high a standard for the others to live up to."
"A mixture of Pirandello and 'Seinfeld,' 'Boise, Idaho' almost seems to taunt the whole endeavor of storytelling, and... displays, along with his provocative imagination, an unbridled willingness to let real people behave ridiculously."
-Steven Oxman, Variety
"...a comic style that marries an extremely heightened reality with outrageously exaggerated plot twists."
-Diane Haithman, Los Angeles Times
