By Alexander V. Thompson
Directed by Brad Raimondo
with Greg Carere, Rosie Sowa, and Simon Winheld
Part comedy, part absurdism, part horror, Pete Rex is the story of Pete, a small town, Midwestern guy and a vicious, yet oddly smooth-talking Tyrannosaur named Nero.

A wholly human story about depression and the choices a young man makes in a fruitless attempt to remain insulated from the fragility of life-and how those very choices ironically lead him, his loved ones, and the world directly into the jaws of mortal danger.
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At a hasty first glance, Alexander V. Thompson’s Pete Rex—staged by The Dreamscape Theatre, in a New York premiere at 59E59 Theaters—may seem a piece of comic whimsy about a world in which dinosaurs once again roam the earth. Soon, though, the play emerges as an allegory about the barriers humans erect to protect our vulnerable hides, and how those barriers stand in the way of our potential for happiness and growth. When we first see mid-thirties-ish Pete (Greg Carere), he is playing a decade-old X-Box football game with his bro, Bo (Simon Winheld), in a funky man cave in New Kensington, PA. Pete has tossed his empty Dr. Pepper cans on the floor beside his couch as if they were so many gnawed mastodon bones discarded by a Neanderthal slob. Anxious and edgy, Pete dreads the arrival of his girlfriend, Julie (Rosie Sowa), who is leaving town for NYC, and leaving him behind. Pete is also suspicious that something romantic may be going on between Julie and Bo. When Julie arrives, she is in a panic. She claims to have just seen a dinosaur scoop up and carry off an elderly woman. TV reports confirm quickly confirm that thunder lizards are indeed running rampant all over town. Soon we lear …Read more