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  • Brynn Hambley:
    7 Feb. 2024
    A beautiful usage of myth to discuss important and relevant issues of the modern day. I absolutely adored the relationship between Lily and Lilith-- how Lilith's story helps Lily to process her own. It was lovely to see depicted older femmes supporting and listening to younger ones through something as unfortunately common and traumatic as Lily's experience. The playwright convincingly writes a young girl processing a difficult and awful experience without "trauma dumping". As a survivor, this play felt really healing.
  • Joanna Castle Miller:
    13 Nov. 2023
    I was introduced to this lovely play through Jewish Plays Project and then again through Hire Survivors Hollywood. It's a beautiful work that uses gentle, poetic language to show how a child processes trauma and the way myths and legends can help us understand ourselves better. Lang's deft focus on the sisterly/caregiver relationship shows the way close community can help or harm in the process of healing. The childlike POV is so poignant and makes an otherwise difficult story accessible. I felt safe with this play and grateful to the playwright.
  • Jewish Plays Project:
    19 May. 2021
    Jewish Plays Project is thrilled that LILY INEFFABLE was a Semi-Finalist for the 10th annual Jewish Plays Contest. Our Semi-Finalists went through a rigorous process in the summer & fall of 2020 where a community of readers searched for plays that spoke to them about Jewish identity in a way that’s bold and challenging, as well as theatrically innovative. After reading 250 plays, LILY INEFFABLE rose to the top 20, and we hope that this play swiftly finds collaborators and opportunities to reach new audiences.
  • Nick Malakhow:
    27 Jun. 2020
    A moving, surprising, and potent exploration of adolescence, trauma, friendship, and faith. Lily's journey is compelling throughout, and I found her grappling with the guilt, shame, fear, and anger of what happened to her incredibly poignant and directly but sensitively handled. I appreciated Lang's exploration Lily and Shea's specific challenges and experiences as young professional actors--the way the business commodifies you and complicates your relationship to adolescence, growing up, and finding and cultivating relationships and allies. Jordan and Chelsea's conversation with Lily at the end of the play is telling and heartbreaking, but gestures towards healing. Moving and powerful!
  • Shaun Leisher:
    18 Jun. 2020
    This play went places that I never expected and I am so glad Lang went there. This is an issue in theatre that needs to be addressed and the way Lang approaches it from a place of powerful magic and almost exclusively through the eyes of children is so impactful. I hope this play gets around in the Broadway community.