20 Seconds – a play with music
Written and Performed by Thomas Sweater
Directed and Developed by Jeremy Scott Blaustein
The Pershing Square Signature Center
September 14, 2023
Production website
💉💉 out of 5.

This is a really tough play to review because the heart of the play is so true, so heartfelt and so important but the stage mechanics of it were so clunky.  Clearly this work of love, resilience, and the undeniable 
“power of music to make real change in a persons’ life” belongs on the stage, but it could have used some better dramaturgy.  Tomas Sweater’s autobiographical work leads us from his trouble childhood where music provided companionship to a career as a music therapist.