Reviews

DC Theatre Scene Review of The Squeaky Wheel SQUEAKS!

“His friend Mark Medoff, Oscar nominee and Tony award winning-author of the play Children of a Lesser God puts it this way: “Fate has dealt (Brian) what might seem like an impossible life. His journey is harrowing, horrifying, and finally inspirational.”
“By all means, see this show for its simple and un adorned first-person story-telling, a soliloquy from the soul. It is tearful and funny, minus any sentimental back-patting. I consider it a “must see”.”

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Show Biz Radio reviews The Squeaky Wheel SQUEAKS!

Brian Shaughnessy tells his story in frank language, with a fine command of the stage. After a few minutes you forget he is speaking from a wheelchair, except when he uses it to emphasize a point. Anyone who has dealt with a life-changing medical event will recognize their story in Brian’s story. He calls his story one of “cynical hope.” We’ve come a long way since his medical mutilation in the early 1980s, yet this is a story that still must be told.

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Fringe & Purge Review of The Squeaky Wheel SQUEAKS!

“The life story of Brian Shaughnessy (actor, writer, attorney, quadriplegic), as he tells it, is full of humor and faith, in spite of the fact that the fates have dealt him a marathon test of physical and emotional endurance. After becoming paralyzed at age 24 during a surgery gone wrong and losing his fiancee as a result, Shaughnessy did what I think many of us would – spiral into a deep depression and contemplate suicide.

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Character on Wheels

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An article about Brian Shaughnessy from the Honolulu Advertiser, September 2006, by Elizabeth Stice

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Review by Rita M. Ippoliti

We all do it. You see someone in a wheelchair waiting for the bus or the paratransit van and you say to yourself, “poor guy.” Pity seems to be your first reaction. You don’t mean to be that way, but in your wildest dreams you cannot imagine life confined to a wheelchair, and you pity [...]

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