BroadwayWorld Raves for WHAT WAS LOST…
“To paraphrase what was asked in one of the most riveting plays I have seen to date, this is a question that each human beings asks him or herself often, depending on who we're talking about - sometimes yearly, sometimes daily: what more are we doing here than simply finding ways of passing the time? What, indeed, does a person do when life has forced her to ponder that purpose which should come naturally to every human soul? If at times it doesn't, and the circumstances of life become too much of a burden for one to live in peace any longer, from that unfortunate moment come the best stories that can be told. Although not very comforting to the people who are forced to experience these degrees of failure and sadness, any audience would be lucky to have the opportunity to share in the woe that befalls such individuals - to travel alongside a character who is spiraling downward before its very collective eye, yet nevertheless still manages to reinstate a sense of hope with each step taken.
Both of McCasland's plays are wonderful and incredibly unique because of how they dive full force into the struggles which made each woman, and thus show the absolute limits of each. Instead of using each play to boast of these individuals' talents and triumphs, McCasland craftily brings the audience in on stories already long in progress. By doing this, he takes how little or how much it knows of his characters' lives and manipulates it to the point where all one can do is relinquish the battle to anticipate, and choose simply to experience…”
