"Hearts Like Planets" is unique because I’ve never read a play about superheroes. Szymkowicz did a fantastic job of making the characters and painting a picture of this world. Furthermore, Szymkowicz lets there be creative liberty with stage directions and characters. The main character often talks to the audience, making you keep reading and get involved with the characters. This is perfect for modern audiences!

A treat from start to finish: from the first few lines, I found myself completely enraptured by Szymkowicz's confident and colorful world-building. I also appreciated the oxygen the play gives each moment to develop into something hilarious and human (examples abound, from a wildly funny scene between two nurses to the "doughnut" conversation). These are not digressions; rather, they sum up to a very fine exploration of the joys of life: ever present if we would only embrace them.

After falling in love with Hearts Like Fists, I was so thrilled to watch a reading of Hearts Like Planets. It has everything I love about Fists--kickass women, great fight scenes, delirious love, and of course, Doctor X--but it's also Queerer and stranger in exciting ways. I particularly loved meeting Orphan Drillnose and the intoxicating Darkness (who should totally get a spinoff, I mean a girl can hope).