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The Ask
64 pages, Paperback
Published May 1, 2025
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May 16, 2025
I almost got to see The Ask during its run last year, but I couldn't make it happen. So when the script became available to purchase, I jumped on it immediately.
And... wow.
That was the only thing that came out of my mouth, multiple times, for several minutes, after closing the cover. Because in this play, Matthew Freeman said it all in a sharp and perfectly developed snapshot of the modern socio-political climate.
Two characters. Two generations. Two sides of the same coin. And 50+ pages of dialogue presenting all of the issues and righteous frustrations they represent. Being of a generation that sits squarely between them, I was the ping-pong ball volleyed from one injustice to the next going yes, Yes, and YES!
The Ask explores the willingness and unwillingness to understand, to empathize... to give. Of ourselves, of our passion, and of our presence.
But the true "Ask" is not the driving question that exists between the two characters...
...it is Freeman asking you, the audience/the reader, who you are. What can you do? And what small, or seemingly small, concession can you grant another person to allow for some common ground... in the hope that maybe now, or in the years to come, we can all do SOMETHING to try to heal this bitterly broken world.
5 stars
And... wow.
That was the only thing that came out of my mouth, multiple times, for several minutes, after closing the cover. Because in this play, Matthew Freeman said it all in a sharp and perfectly developed snapshot of the modern socio-political climate.
Two characters. Two generations. Two sides of the same coin. And 50+ pages of dialogue presenting all of the issues and righteous frustrations they represent. Being of a generation that sits squarely between them, I was the ping-pong ball volleyed from one injustice to the next going yes, Yes, and YES!
The Ask explores the willingness and unwillingness to understand, to empathize... to give. Of ourselves, of our passion, and of our presence.
But the true "Ask" is not the driving question that exists between the two characters...
...it is Freeman asking you, the audience/the reader, who you are. What can you do? And what small, or seemingly small, concession can you grant another person to allow for some common ground... in the hope that maybe now, or in the years to come, we can all do SOMETHING to try to heal this bitterly broken world.
5 stars
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