RIFT is exceptionally deep, timely, intellectually and emotionally engaging. InterAct produced the second production, as part of an NNPN Rolling World Premiere, which I directed, and we had our two actors switch roles every other performance, as the play intends. It was one of the most successful shows in our history, garnering tremendous audience response. Over 90 patrons returned to see the show a second time with the actors in opposite roles and they uniformly found the play even more rewarding.

I got to experience this play from the time that it was a multi-week text communication with audiences and then again staged at Luna Stage. This is a powerful, important play examining the relationship between two brothers on opposite sides of ideologies. They make the decision to try to understand each other for the purpose of a book, but also to help repair their relationship. In the process, the audience learns about what else binds them together. A poignant, timely, phenomenal play that all audiences will identify with!

A troubling, essential work that examines white supremacy, class conflict, abuse, and family in a head-on yet nuanced fashion. We increasingly see the "inside" brother's humanity as we begin to see the flaws in "outside" brother's narrative, and that murky navigation is deftly handled. Most importantly, our understanding of each character's life is done without exploiting or manipulating Black characters. The capitalist, opportunistic forces that maintain white supremacy are fully explored in the flawed white characters onstage. I'd love to see this staged.