Sitting alone in his squalid tenement room, Buster, blind and lonely, waits anxiously for his only friend, Butch, a boastful, jive-talking product of the streets, who stops by each week to share a bottle of cheap wine.  This dark urban comedy leads to even darker tragedy, when Butch, bent on revenge, sets his sights on robbing a liquor store, with blind Buster serving as the lookout. The results of this oftentimes funny and moving rollercoaster ride sends the audience reeling into a sadness beyond belief.

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VILLAGER:  "Watching Brian Mori’s DREAMS OF FLIGHT carries you down into a bottomless sadness that reaches below the grief produced by the presence of death.... The two are reminiscent of Didi and Gogo in Godot except that they use their minute and waning capabilities to destroy themselves rather than being caught in a cycle of aimless repetition.”

SOHO WEEKLY NEWS:  "Mori has penned a vaudeville of down-and-outs, a tragicomedy starring Buster and Butch.... [A]n intense and provocative piece.... [I]t demonstrates a nascent dramatic talent.”  

THE DRAMATISTS GUILD QUARTERLY: "[A] marvelous discovery.”

INSIDE LINCOLN PARK:  "[W]hips at the senses with the ghettoized signifyin’ interplay between the timorous Buster and the boastful, egocentric Butch.  The dialogue is true.  The acting by Mssrs. [Jeris] Poindexter and [Seiphus M.] Booker contains a brutal honesty that can only come from the soul.”

CHICAGO TRIBUNE:  "[A] gritty, tough, one act play about two denizens of black ghetto, an unflinching honest portrayal of slum squalor and hopelessness.  Mori’s sociological awareness is unimpeachable.... [Poindexter and Booker] are sharp and funny in conveying Mori’s ghetto humor and rough, obscene realities.”

WDCD (90.9 FM):  "[Buster] is a very moving metaphor for us all.  His blind stumblings lead the way for all those who grope for other people but who are frightened when they touch them.... [A] highly compassionate look at how our self-deficiencies bring our soaring intentions and hopes crashing down tragically on the hard ground of reality.”

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Production: Theatre for a New Generation (The Producers Club) - New York, NY

Production:  Leicester College (Mad Susan Theatre Company) - Leicester, England

Production:  Aflabi Ojumu Productions - Brooklyn, NY

Production:  Notre Dame de Namur University - Belmont, CA

Production:  Simba Theatre Company - Los Vegas, NV

Production:  Victory Gardens Theatre - Chicago, IL

Production:  Ensemble Theatre - Houston, TX

Production:  Impossible Ragtime Theatre - New York, NY

Published by Dramatists Play Service