I was immediately drawn into the world of the play through the cadence of the characters, which told me everything in the first 10-15 pages about Birdie's heartbreak that would unfold. Highly appreciated the many intentional choices, a primary one being centering Birdie's story on her mental health journey while the play peels away the layers of the emotional abuse in all her familial relationships. This play also provides opportunities for designers to play with lights and shadows of the theatrical woods and theatres to have nuanced conversations with their audiences about neurodiversity.

A beautiful, lyrical play that centers around the compelling Birdie and the way she must navigate her evolving, complex relationships with her fiancee and parents. The way Birdie's alienation from others and her autism are theatricalized is quite inventive and poignant and allows audiences a crystal clear window into her experiences and her past/present struggles with an emotionally abusive mom and a fiancee she's trying to communicate and share her whole self with. I really appreciated, especially, Birdie's difficulties of putting a name to/validating her own abuse in the context of knowing Lin's difficult past--a very real narrative.

A great modern-day fairytale about the words we can't say and living with autism.