Overview
- The one-man true-crime play has begun its New York run at the Lucille Lortel Theatre after acclaimed UK engagements and two Olivier Awards for Best Actor and sound design.
- Jack Holden portrays roughly 35 characters, with onstage composer John Patrick Elliott performing live music that drives the action.
- Critics describe concert-like staging marked by electric guitar breaks, fog, flashing lights, rolling set pieces, and immersive 360-degree audio.
- Several reviews question whether a solo format shifts focus away from the town of Skidmore, which the story presents as a community facing a failure of law and order.
- The production revisits the still-unsolved 1981 shooting of Ken Rex McElroy in Missouri, a case widely chronicled in books, documentaries, and a TV movie.