Dan Bernitt's solo piece on the fraternity who deals with a gay brother and has had a brother imprisoned for five years for assaulting a gay man is realistic. He portrays four straight brothers: Jacob; the big bro to Lewis (the gay bro); David, the spiritual brother; Patrick, the fraternity president; and Aaron, the imprisoned brother. The piece is very moving. I was very ready to destroy the piece for it's tragic tone if he hadn't given the final voice to Jacob, the only man who was sympathetic to the gay brother who is "outted" (figuratively and literally) from the fraternity. The work lingers a bit too long on bible thumping, but does contain some gems of writing mostly in the voice of Aaron. Bernitt's story-telling style leaves something to be desired as each character's movements weren't very defined and he spent most of his time reading from the page instead of engaging an audience as the character. But the story held my attention and I give this piece 3 stars out of 5!
Reviewed by: Cody
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