The review in full by Brittany Lipton from the Rhino Fest Flash edition of the Chicago Arts Journal, reviewing Justin Botz‘ early February performance at the Prop Thtr:

“What if it’s true that all is created with conclusions pre-determined, and our lives are mere reflections of that hypothesis? Justin Botz’s Rhino Fest debut, Dreams of a Possible End, explores not only this question, but additionally that of how endings define us before we have reached them.

Within a half-hour’s time, Mr. Botz, an experienced Chicago writer and performer, creates dreams for his audience to invade: a man who sings “It will all be over soon” in repetition that seems never-ending; another who ravages a man-shaped cake while discussing what seems to be a serious famine; a third who finds an abandoned amusement park and crosses a beam above the Ferris wheel towards those he used to know. The set itself, lights strung through beer bottles, turned-over chairs, the man-shaped cake, lend descriptors to the dreams Mr. Botz brings to life with language.

Most intriguing was Mr. Botz’s ability not merely to tell a story but to, in a concluding piece reiterating each of the stories already learned — of famine, of secret alien operations in the Denver airport and, most significantly, of what it means to walk across a plank towards certain death but continue across resolutely — teach the audience that the ending is concrete and definite, but what matters most is how we arrive there.”