Refuge

by Andrew Rosendorf

REFUGE follows a South Texas Rancher who finds an undocumented teenage migrant from Honduras passed out on his land, a female Latina border patrol agent who is trying to find someone lost in the desert, and the animals who are just trying to survive – as everything is illegal in the desert.

REFUGE follows a South Texas Rancher who finds an undocumented teenage migrant from Honduras passed out on his land, a female Latina border patrol agent who is trying to find someone lost in the desert, and the animals who are just trying to survive – as everything is illegal in the desert.

  • Inquire About Rights
  • Recommend
  • Download
  • Save to Reading List

Refuge

Recommended by

  • Paco José Madden: Refuge

    A poetic meditation on the suffering of immigrants crossing the U.S. - Mexico border. Rosendorf humanizes the lives of an immigrant, a rancher, and a border patrol agent in unique and surprising ways. The play illuminates the our common connection beyond arbitrary borders, race, or the luck of the draw where one was born. An important play for our times. 5 out of 5 stars!

    A poetic meditation on the suffering of immigrants crossing the U.S. - Mexico border. Rosendorf humanizes the lives of an immigrant, a rancher, and a border patrol agent in unique and surprising ways. The play illuminates the our common connection beyond arbitrary borders, race, or the luck of the draw where one was born. An important play for our times. 5 out of 5 stars!

  • Anne G. Morgan: Refuge

    This is a gorgeously urgent play, with a clear focus on its characters, a deep theatricality, and a lyric poeticism. 

    This is a gorgeously urgent play, with a clear focus on its characters, a deep theatricality, and a lyric poeticism. 

  • Rachael Carnes: Refuge

    Rosendorf's poetry leaps off the page, resonant and clear. The way the writer approaches using two languages, English and Spanish, drew me in as a reader, it's fluid, organic, and made me ask questions, in a good way, too. The spareness of the lines speaks to their craft: Restrained, energetic, alive. How can anything be so beautiful, and elicit such strong feelings of sadness, anger, fear, in a reader? This gorgeous play so deserves to be in full-production soon. Any creative team will find luminous words, like a pathway, illuminating. Simply stunning work.

    Rosendorf's poetry leaps off the page, resonant and clear. The way the writer approaches using two languages, English and Spanish, drew me in as a reader, it's fluid, organic, and made me ask questions, in a good way, too. The spareness of the lines speaks to their craft: Restrained, energetic, alive. How can anything be so beautiful, and elicit such strong feelings of sadness, anger, fear, in a reader? This gorgeous play so deserves to be in full-production soon. Any creative team will find luminous words, like a pathway, illuminating. Simply stunning work.

View all 12 recommendations

Development History

  • Type Workshop, Organization Curious Theatre Company, Year 2020
  • Type Workshop, Organization Great Plains Theatre Conference, Year 2019
  • Type Workshop, Organization Colorado New Play Festival, Year 2019
  • Type Reading, Organization Campfire Theatre Festival, Year 2019

Production History

Awards