Review: Gruesome Playground Injuries by Miscast Theatre Company

by Donna Provencher
Published on September 15, 2026

Deceptively simple, intriguingly deep, memorably acted: Miscast Theatre's GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES.

There’s something deceptively simple about Gruesome Playground Injuries. Rajiv Joseph’s two-hander, presented by San Antonio’s Miscast Theatre Company, follows Kayleen and Doug across three decades, moving backward and forward through time as the pair repeatedly find one another at moments of physical or emotional injury. And sure, it’s a story about wounds. But more importantly — like a more graphic version of A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters — it’s a story about what happens when two …

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