well, I’ll let you go
Written by Bubba Weiler
Directed by Jack Serio
The Space at Irondale
August 5, 2025
Production website
πππππ out of 5.
Set in a small Midwestern town well I’ll let you go is a portrait of a woman and a community in crisis. Alternately vast and personal in scope, shifting backwards and forwards in time, this expansive, yet incredibly intimate, debut play sifts through the rubble of a town, marriage and a life built on an American dream that’s crumbled period.
Entering the βspaceβ above a beautiful church in Brooklyn I was met with a very long court of a floor all in nailed down in plywood and a handful of metal folding chairs.Β Β I knew this was going to be a terrible show or something really special.Β Β AND it turned out to be something very, very special.Β Β It is impossible to believe that this is playwright Bubba Weilerβs playwriting debut – – It is so clean and clear with beautiful language and the perfect blending of kitchen-sink American realism with touches of theatrical magic.Β Β I was interested and invested in each character and wanted to see how each of their story lines played out.Β Β