“ This play presents a real-life hypothetical solution to the apocalyptic cloud of impulsiveness which all of us live under today. Though The Volunteer is about the potentiality and inhumanity of nuclear war, it also manages to be funny, moving and theatrical while avoiding being cumbersome or necessarily costly, making it ideal for smaller venues who want to do new, innovative work. Propelling the surprising (and even sometimes gruesome) plot twists, choice roles for actors and clean, often funny dialogue is a guiding urgency which the audience will take home. It's important. Don't just read it. Produce it. ”

“ Heard this as part of a Chicago reading series, and Cassandra builds an alternate reality I would both love to live in, and would also be immediately terrified of. The choices made around nuclear war become deeply personal in an intense and hilarious examination of what happens when killing becomes less a theory, and more a practice. ”

“ I had the good fortune of listening to this at its first public reading, and I could not more highly recommend it. The deep connection to all of the characters is one of its biggest strengths. There is a sense of urgency, fear, chaos, and at the same time, important interpersonal relationships that knit it all together into an excellent excerise in morality. The monologues are superb, the subject matter is well researched, and it's a damn fine work of art. ”