This play goes back and forth between being brash and tender. It feels like an infusion of works like Kenneth Lonergan's This is Our Youth and Eric Bogosian's SubUrbia. With that said, Daniel K. Isaac gives it its own identity, utilizing dialogue that packs a punch and queer characters who naturally -and tenderly- come to terms with who they are. This is the kind of play with young characters that young actors NEED to explore. It would particularly fit well in any college program!

I'm not sure I've seen this executed well before reading this play: a truly slice-of-life play capturing a complicated early 2000s nostalgia within an easy-to-follow poetic realism structure. Daniel K. Isaac in FULLERTON explores emotional and sexual coming-of-age in southern California as a Korean-American gay kid growing up in a Christian household. Funny (loved several jokes along the way), sad, and resonant for anyone with any intersection of life experience with this play. Great work!

I feel like these are the kind of plays written about towns in the midwest. The less affluent conservative parts of Orange County don't get written about much. I appreciated this play providing a window into that world and into the lives of these people that are trying to be themselves and figure out what the future has in store for them. The short scenes really make for a well-paced play that spans many years of adolescence. Got some big Our Town vibes.