"Our life should be recorded," says a character in Richard Kalinoski's Beast on the Moon. That statement sums up the playwright's intent, as well. This uneven work deals with the aftermath of the Armenian genocide, an atrocity that has been suppressed and even denied by the Turkish government, as it was the Turks who systematically exterminated over a million Armenians during World War I. I'm unaware of any other plays that address the subject, and it's obvious that one of Kalinoski's primary motivations for writing Beast is to make sure that this historical event is not forgotten.

Unfortunately, the script is more interesting as an academic exercise than as a compelling piece of drama. It'[...]