POV Dave

POV Dave is one of those plays where the audience starts off completely lost. Then bit by bit the pieces fall into place and the story makes sense.

It ends up being a contemporary moral story that asks a question that dates back at least as far as 1989 and Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: How will you be remembered? Are you happy with the legacy you will leave behind?

POV Daveopens with Dave (Keith Brockett) stabbed on a train. As he lies there, waiting for an ambulance to arrive, his mind flits through a series of recent memories revealing what led up to him lying on the floor of a train, bleeding out.

What carries this play is Keith Brockett’s performance. He starts with a high-level of intensity and skillfully varies the emotional punch throughout. Brockett is on stage the whole time, and it’s up to him to carry the audience on the journey through the 80-minute production.

I felt that POV Dave had an excess of actors. Some of them only get a few minutes of stage time. Brockett’s performance is so strong that I think this would have worked just as well as a one-man show.

It’s Brockett’s performance that transports you out of your safe world into a story where you’re scrabbling for air. And it is Brockett’s performance that leads you safely through that world.

Daniel G. Taylor