Cockroaches runs at Revolution Stage Company, 611 S. Palm Canyon Drive, Suite 16, Palm Springs, through May 3, 2026
Tickets available here
Review by Darrell Spencer for Palm Springs Tribune 4/29
Written by Emma Schillage and directed by Emerson Collins, Cockroaches is a Southern Gothic dark comedy that crawls through family trauma, survival, inherited damage, and the kind of baggage people do not simply escape. If you know Tennessee Williams or Flannery O’Connor, you will recognize the terrain: the heat, the rot, the humor, the cruelty, the things said in rooms where everyone already knows too much. If you do not know those writers, that may be even better. Just sit back and take the ride.
…What stayed with me after leaving the theater was not one clear answer, but a feeling. This is a play about the things we survive, the things we inherit, and the things we know but wish we did not. I do not know whether the play is autobiographical, and I would not assume that it is. But there is a lived-in reality to these characters that gives the writing weight. The real monster of the story is so well written and so effectively performed that it made my skin crawl.