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Thrive, Or What You Will [an epic] by L M Feldman

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  • Steven Christopher McKnight:
    17 Oct. 2023
    “ The play is somewhat of a Herculean task, as epics tend to be. It's a play that almost requires you to develop a relationship with it to fully understand and take in. As such a play that plays with time, space, gender, and personification, every audience member gets something different out of it. I saw this play a couple times at Binghamton University, which worked to its benefit. Having a whole department digest this play over the course of a semester made it such a remarkable shared experience. Recommended especially for universities. ”
  • Pauline David-Sax:
    30 Jun. 2022
    “ As someone who read The Discovery of Jeanne Baret by Glynis Ridley, I was thrilled to see how L brought this source material to life. I loved the inventive use of the ensemble of Askers and the multiple Jean/nes. L covers a lot of historical ground while also creating a piece that speaks very much to contemporary audiences. It's a gripping exploration of identity and historiography and sexual politics. ”
  • Jerry Polner:
    5 Feb. 2022
    “ L M Feldman's Thrive, or What You Will is indeed an epic, a worldly, sweeping story about the 18th century French herb woman Jeanne Baret, who pretends to be a man in order to board an exploratory ship bound for the "Great Southern Continent." This is a brilliantly told, steel-edged tale about what the worst of men can do and what the rest of us fail to do about it.
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  • Cheryl Bear:
    8 Nov. 2021
    “ A brilliant play that gives us insight into the lives of women of history and the world they live in. Well done! ”
  • Julie Zaffarano:
    12 Apr. 2020
    “ An epic scope, but so beautifully personal, engaging with musical dialogue. L Feldman’s “Thrive , Or What You Will” is a wind-tossed journey of of desires and conflicts. A story for today, against a historic background. Brilliant. ”
  • American Shakespeare Center:
    14 Mar. 2020
    “ Thrive, or What You Will was selected as a Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries winner and will be produced as part of the American Shakespeare Center’s 2020-21 National Tour and receive its Blackfriars premiere in May 2021, produced in repertory with Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. It is our pleasure to strongly recommend this play. This engaging, moving, and timely play that dramatizes the life of Jeanne Baret sheds light on the implications of, and possibilities in, disguising oneself to travel. L has created a rich theatrical experience that is deeply resonant with the themes of Twelfth Night. ”
  • Jennifer O'Grady:
    26 Feb. 2020
    “ Fabulous, theatrical play with fantastic, inventive and super-skilled storytelling. Loved it! ”
  • InterAct Theatre Company:
    7 Jan. 2019
    “ InterAct Theatre Company developed THRIVE, OR WHAT YOU WILL as part of our 6th Annual Core Playwrights Weekend in December 2018. L's thoughtfulness, wit and keen theatrical mind is on full display in this sweeping text interrogating privilege and identity in history and its legacy. We are proud to have contributed to the development of this piece. ”
  • Emma Goldman-Sherman:
    17 Dec. 2018
    “ Definitely makes it into my top 10 plays for the year! Feldman manages to to give us the entire world (and its taxonomy) in her epic opus that is filled with great moments, surprises, drama, passion and always exposes the hypocrisy of "Western Civilization" mining it for comedy with her very large heart. ”
  • Eugene O'Neill Theater Center:
    25 Sep. 2018
    “ It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend L M Feldman and their play Thrive, Or What You Will as a finalist for our 2018 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one of 53 finalists out of more than 1,4200 submissions, the strength of its writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process. ”

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