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Orange by Aditi Kapil

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  • Elana Gartner:
    21 Jul. 2022
    “ As a person with a disability, I truly appreciated that this was written from the perspective of someone with autism. Her adventure with her cousin who is trying to take advantage of her disability to get out of her familial obligations and run off with her boyfriend is true to form and painful to watch as it unravels. There are wonderful emotional arcs for all of the characters. This is a great play to put on stage! ”
  • Cheryl Bear:
    15 Aug. 2020
    “ A wonderful story that gives us insight into the full experience of a girl with autism and her family. It's beautiful and it goes deep into our hearts. Love! ”
  • Shea King:
    1 Mar. 2019
    “ Orange is a story told with incredible creativity and wonder. I was hooked from the moment I met Leela. Having her perspective be the way we experience this play gave me access to the world like I never imagined. Orange is crafted with care and detail and it gives me hope for what the theatre could be like. This is an amazing play. ”
  • Diana Burbano:
    29 Dec. 2018
    “ A lovely play that has a character who sees and feels things differently from others in her family. Leela is as unique as her vision of Orange County. This play is clear eyed in compassion and honesty. This is a play about people one doesn't often see on stage, and I crave to know them better. ”
  • Emily Hageman:
    27 Jul. 2018
    “ A truly beautiful play. A seamless story about a very unique girl and all the people she encounters on her adventure. Leela is a fantastic character--a character who is disabled, but the whole play isn't ABOUT her disability. It's vivid and lovely and full of pure wonder--like a modern Alice in Wonderland. Very beautiful play that is begging to be staged. ”
  • Shaun Leisher:
    5 Oct. 2017
    “ More plays like this need to be written. Plays about Southeast Asian people that's not all about them being Southeast Asian but being people. Plays about people on the autism spectrum that treats them with such nuance and care. ”
  • Emma Goldman-Sherman:
    5 Mar. 2017
    “ Lovely sweet parable that helps us all understand so much about life, the enormity of being human with other humans -- it is a play that enlarges our lives. ”
  • Asher Wyndham:
    1 Mar. 2017
    “ I had the pleasure of seeing this produced by Mixed Blood in 2016. Never seen this type of character on a stage before, a teenager on the autism spectrum. Can you think of a play that has such a character? If you can't, then this should be the play you read. Its structure, with use of illustrations, journal writings and the episodic journey, allows for us to sympathize with her. Sometimes I saw the world through her eyes. The play also makes you think about how you're perceived and how you perceive the world differently than other people. ”
  • Gwydion Suilebhan:
    5 Aug. 2016
    “ This is the sort of play that makes your heart larger. It's beautiful and timeless and poetic and brilliant. ”