Seeing Stars

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Lauren Bloom
September 6, 2023 5:25 am

Steve Budd’s new play, Seeing Stars, is a compelling personal portrayal of family dynamics. Steve plays his younger self as well as his mom and dad with depth and nuance. As the story unfolds the audience is brought into experience life through each of their eyes. Touching and funny I’m glad I did not miss this well written and acted play.

Suzy Kieninger
September 1, 2023 8:28 pm

Steve Budd gave a powerful and moving performance in Seeing Stars. He captured the character of his parents with great sensitivity, and his delivery was both emotionally resonant and technically proficient.
Steve’s performance was particularly effective in the way he used facial expressions, body language, and vocal inflections to create a vivid picture of his world, as well as his parents’ world at that time. The addition of humor in many instances made the play more interesting and entertaining. Overall, Steve gave a performance that was both memorable and affecting

Carrie Kartman
August 27, 2023 7:12 pm

Steven Budd is a talented guy! The characters in Seeing Stars are genuine, funny and endearing, the tale is compelling and fast-paced; go see this show!

Nilou
August 26, 2023 5:36 am

‘Seeing Stars’ by Steve Budd is a remarkable, brilliant, and comic play with an outstanding performance. It has a very intriguing story that captures your full attention throughout the play with clever sense of humor without distancing you from reality and hope. As the last show of the Fringe Festival, It made me eagerly looking forward to the 2024 SF Fringe Festival with star shows like Steve’s!

Cheshire Isaacs
August 23, 2023 6:43 pm

I got to see Steve Budd’s “Seeing Stars” close out the Fringe on Saturday night. Hopefully it gets a full run soon here and near and far, but it was a hit at the Fringe, and for good reason: Steve weaves a true tale about himself and his parents that is by turns delightful, funny, and gut-punching. To talk about it more would spoil it. Steve is such an engaging storyteller — he may not have the Hollywood stardom he dreamt of as a young actor, but we’re lucky to have his talents here in the Bay Area.

Beth
August 23, 2023 6:01 pm

I saw the show last Saturday and it’s heartfelt and will make you both laugh and cry. Only one Fringe show left this Saturday at 7pm. Don’t miss it!

Janie
August 23, 2023 12:45 am

Steve’s show was fantastic. I am always amazed at how he is able to play so many characters at once and bring them to life. The show handles family issues with realness and depth.

Jay
August 21, 2023 11:11 pm

A life revealed with humor, pathos, humility, and understanding. A wonderful hour to spend in the theater. GO FOR IT!

Paula
August 21, 2023 8:03 pm

This show is short but impactful. It’s filled with humor, ranging from quiet chuckles to laugh out loud guffaws; recreations of family interactions which resonate with their very prosaicness; and revelations of vulnerability which led me to tears more than once. Steve takes us on an incredible personal journey which I am still thinking about days later. I’m so glad I went.

Judy
August 20, 2023 5:54 pm

A thought-provoking, poignant story, well-constructed and movingly told. Bravo!

Michelle
August 20, 2023 4:07 pm

Absolutely incredible! Steve Budd takes you on a fast-paced, intense ride through time. The autobiographical show touches on the very core of an individual’s identity. Unforgettable and laugh-out-loud funny.

Rennea Couttenye
August 20, 2023 3:56 pm

Seeing Stars brings up for me an awareness of the immense and unknown world of the brain. Our vision of our own selves and our being is all orchestrated by patterns and chemical and electrical synapsis, and then, there we are! Our persona emerges! What I felt in the hour of Steve’s play is compassion. When having relationships with people with mental disorders (we all do have a measure of a disorder), we cannot judge or condemn but, on the contrary, try to understand him or her… and ourselves.

Robert Budnitz
August 20, 2023 2:08 am

This in intended to be a very favorable review. Steve Budd’s skill in capturing the different personalities of both his mother and his father is a theatrical tour-de-force. The dialogue itself (written by Steve) has great interest and lots of insight, which Steve has captured superbly. It must have been very difficult to be both respectful and critical of one’s (now deceased) parents, but Steve has done it in a captivating way. I would recommend this first as a great piece of one-man-show theater and second as a penetrating glimpse into complex family relationships that ought to be relevant to just about everybody. BOBBY

Richard Wenzel
August 20, 2023 1:21 am

This is not to be missed. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes profoundly touching as Steve slips from character to character to tell this story filled with humanity and heart. Don’t miss it!

Eric Antebi
August 20, 2023 12:19 am

A touching and profound performance — with just the right amount of cheekiness. Obviously a deeply personal story but also some thing so many of us can relate to. Looking forward to whatever Steve Budd does next.

Robert Estes
August 19, 2023 12:47 am

I was lucky enough to attend Seeing Stars last Saturday. This show will certainly go on to a life after this fringe. It is a thought through and excellently performed examination and meditation on what makes us family, and what makes us human. Highly recommend.

Marla KA
August 19, 2023 12:18 am

Steve Budd’s “Seeing Stars” is a beautifully woven tale of his soul’s search for meaning, his relationship with his parents and the story of their lives during a time of great uncertainty. Overlaid on a context of a world at war are the more personal battles that Steve’s father, family and Steve himself must fight to find legitimacy, acceptance and meaning. The story is told with tender heart, humor, vulnuerable honesty and a masterful ability to move between characters and perspectives. Particularly striking are the questions Steve asks us to consider, about how we treat people with mental health issues, about what is real and what is illusion/delusion. The leitmotif of the constellations launch the questions into even bigger philosophical orbits – do we see things the way they are, or the way we want them to be? We are left with real thoughts to contemplate. Thank you for sharing your story, Steve. To us, you are a star.

Carter Brooks
August 18, 2023 6:49 pm

Best of Steve Budd’s one-man shows to date. Brilliant writing weaving his true story to a thematic narrative. Hope to see this show make it to more people.

Steven Keena
August 16, 2023 10:32 pm

A good show that has plenty of laughs but also deals with serious issues as well. I enjoyed the story and could relate to the topics presented.

Gabe
August 14, 2023 6:47 pm

I am really glad to have attended this event, it was entertaining, thought provoking and enjoyable. Steve is a very talented actor to be able to deliver such an impressive performance. I look forward to his next performance and would highly recommend to others.

Stuart
August 14, 2023 5:06 pm

SEEING STARS, by Steve Budd, is a poignant story about coming to terms with the limitations of your parents, the realities of life in a world that doesn’t have a ton of time or space for your dreams, and coping with mental illness in all its varied forms and manifestations. Steve Budd’s writing is crisp and economical, occasionally poetic, and he builds his multiple narratives well, weaving together disparate elements such as the Gulf War and an audition process for DEATH OF A SALESMAN, with the seemingly mundane minutiae of yet another American dream deferred by the need to pay rent. Under it all, a thread of deep anxiety stemming not just from family history, but familial understanding that if you ask the right person at the wrong time, we’re all a little “unwell” but maybe we’re all also tapping into something real, inexpressible, and humbling to the core.