Theater We Saw: Camping & The Family Dog (feat. Billy McEntee)

<p>Sims and Scully are joined by Billy McEntee—theater editor of the Brooklyn Rail, theater writer, and theater maker—for two summer plays.</p><p>First up: <em>Camping</em> by Victoria Lynne Barclay, directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt for Colt Coeur at HERE Arts Center. Alice Kremelberg and Colby Minifie play Brit and Ari, two friends who keep returning to the same tent over twenty-five years. The trio talks Colby Minifie&#39;s run of intense performances, Adrienne Campbell-Holt staging a play in twelve square feet, the choice not to break the set open for a final gesture, and the flooded-tent stage direction that didn&#39;t make it into production.</p><p>Then: <em>The Family Dog</em> by Bailey Williams, directed by Tara Ahmadinejad, the closer of Clubbed Thumb&#39;s Summerworks 2026 at The Wild Project. Bruce McKenzie narrates as Johnny, the ailing family dog at the center of a holiday homecoming. Discussed: McKenzie&#39;s remarkably specific animal work, Jennifer Van Dyck&#39;s Catholic-guilt-drenched mother, and the family&#39;s slow-motion collapse one sibling at a time.</p>