I recently experienced "This Will Be Our Year" via a Zoom reading and it really is an 'experience'. The dialogue is fast and keeps you captivated with it's quick-witted allure. Yet, the toxicity of this relationship is so palpable you just want to turn away from it...while also wanting to know what happens next. This push and pull creates a beautiful rollercoaster ride of emotions, of which Ali expertly maneuvers.

Full disclosure, I've participated in several different readings of this play, and I couldn't be prouder to have been a part of each one of them. This play is a funny, heartbreaking, raw, unrelenting, moving journey into toxic love and the overwhelming power of falling in love with the right person for you, who also happens to be absolutely wrong for you. Toxic people may genuinely love you, but that doesn't mean they'll ever change. They'll stab you in the lungs and then ask why you're having trouble breathing. It's a powerful and beautiful play.

This is a beautiful, funny and heartbreaking play that tells the story of two people and their forbidden love. It's fast paced, witty and touches deep into the soul and the heartstrings! I was wondering whether to root for the two or not, and that's the beauty of Ali's writing. She succeeds at giving incredibly flawed human beings a platform to be who they are; an everlasting connection to people reading or listening to the play.