Refuge

REFUGE follows a South Texas Rancher who finds an undocumented teenage migrant from Honduras passed out on his land, a female Latina border patrol agent who is trying to find someone lost in the desert, and the animals who are just trying to survive – as everything is illegal in the desert.
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Refuge

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  • Paco José Madden:
    29 Apr. 2020
    A poetic meditation on the suffering of immigrants crossing the U.S. - Mexico border. Rosendorf humanizes the lives of an immigrant, a rancher, and a border patrol agent in unique and surprising ways. The play illuminates the our common connection beyond arbitrary borders, race, or the luck of the draw where one was born. An important play for our times. 5 out of 5 stars!
  • Anne G. Morgan:
    29 Jan. 2020
    This is a gorgeously urgent play, with a clear focus on its characters, a deep theatricality, and a lyric poeticism. 
  • Rachael Carnes:
    4 Dec. 2019
    Rosendorf's poetry leaps off the page, resonant and clear. The way the writer approaches using two languages, English and Spanish, drew me in as a reader, it's fluid, organic, and made me ask questions, in a good way, too. The spareness of the lines speaks to their craft: Restrained, energetic, alive. How can anything be so beautiful, and elicit such strong feelings of sadness, anger, fear, in a reader? This gorgeous play so deserves to be in full-production soon. Any creative team will find luminous words, like a pathway, illuminating. Simply stunning work.

Development History

  • Workshop
    ,
    Curious Theatre Company
    ,
    2020
  • Reading
    ,
    Campfire Theatre Festival
    ,
    2019
  • Workshop
    ,
    Great Plains Theatre Conference
    ,
    2019
  • Workshop
    ,
    Colorado New Play Festival
    ,
    2019

Production History

Awards

Finalist
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Local Lab
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Local Theater Company
,
2019
Finalist
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NAPseries
,
Normal Ave
,
2019
Semi-Finalist
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Seven Devils Playwrights Conference
,
id Theater
,
2019