Throw Pitchfork by Alexander Thomas

"The show is, in the end, an elegy for a father...a portrait of a father's poignant legacy and what struck me as a dead-on depiction of how a family diverges from a center."

"An urgent high-energy performance, into which the shifting of characters fits directly into the rhythm of the play."

"It is remarkable how entertaining and satisfying Thomas's memoir is... Stuffed with big themes and memorable characters."

"Achieves greatness as social document... Thomas conveys to us what it meant to be a black man in Alabama in 1933, more potently than I've ever witnessed... He tells his story with affection, humor and pride."

"His multiple portraits show how intricately our individual identities are tied to family."

"There are moments of profound poignancy."

"A riveting night in the theatre."

"Thomas vividly tells the stories of these tormented men...skillfully shifting between characters and weaving their stories together with poignancy and humor."

"Thomas, a skilled and provocative writer, has placed this gripping climax where it casts light on the monologues before and after it. In the rare moments when this compact show threatens to become another story of how-I-became-an-actor, Thomas delivers jolts like these, in scenes that meld language and acting seamlessly..."

"Thomas energizes every square yard of the stage, like a tennis player volleying every emotion in the text across to the audience...transforms the raw elements of his life into a panoply of African-Americana, of jazz, of jivin', with long rap-like riffs of language."