Top Talent Turns On the ‘LIGHT SWITCH’ for a Florida Premiere at Island City Stage

Jun 2

By Mindy Leaf for Florida Theatre Onstage

This is a fascinating, edgy, enlightening, funny but also often emotionally difficult play to experience. Veteran, highly awarded South Florida director Michael Leeds, as expected, kept the two-act, two-hour with one intermission dramedy’s breathtakingly poignant or shocking scenes – which ping-ponged from a 2017 present to 2001, 1998, 2005 and back again – moving quickly but smoothly, and thus easily grasped by the audience. An added allure was how changing eras were introduced by period- and subject pertinent pop tunes like Ed Sheeran singing “I’m in love with your body” in his 2017 global hit, “Shape of You.” Or Pink’s “What About Us?” … “What about all the times you said you had the answers?”

Read the entire review at https://southfloridatheater.com/2026/05/26/top-talent-turns-on-the-light-switch-for-a-florida-premiere-at-island-city-stage/