Journalist Greg Burk writes with equal passion and elegance about extreme metal and jazz. He’s just about the only person I know besides myself who champions both forms of music, and then some. I’m guessing he has the best record collection in the known universe.  On his site, Metaljazz, he nails the essence of Big Death & Little Death better than any other critic.   Can’t resist quoting my favorite paragraph:

If the script, by screenwriter and playwright Mickey Birnbaum, sounds absurd, it isn’t only that. For one thing, he writes with a fine ear to the way people actually talk. And, obsessed with the pain and futility of life, Birnbaum is after nothing less than complete transcendence. “Big Deathâ€? reminds me a little of Sam Shepard’s “Angel Cityâ€? in one way: It proposes the notion that one action — exactly the correct action — could flip the entire universe around. What, after all, would be the risk? It might not be any better, but it could hardly be worse.

Read the whole piece here.  Big D runs through July 21st at the Road Theatre.