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Brown has a facility for digging beyond the tough guy personas into the fears and insecurities of his characters, a bunch of high school students with wildly varying prospects for the future — in other words, not so different from anyone’s kids.

Calgary Herald

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As I watched The Circle with all its verbal, physical and emotional violence, I kept thinking this must have been what it was like back in 1956 at London’s Royal Court Theatre for the premiere of John Osborne’s 'Look Back in Anger', a play that ushered in and defined a generation.

Calgary Sun

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The Circle unfolds, almost in real-time over the course of an evening — a hazy, lazy garage party with an ill-fitted crew of millennial misfits who finally end up pushing their luck a little too far in the name of a good time.

Calgary Herald

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It’s hard not to like 'The Circle'… a script that is very real, very now and unexpectedly poetic.

Globe and MailJ. Kelly Nestruck

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★★★★...gritty, ground breaking theatre

Calgary Sun

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Brown’s a talented theatrical voice with an ability to find both poetry and lots of humour in his teenage characters’ lives

Calgary Herald