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  • Paula Cizmar:
    15 Feb. 2022
    A love story of two legends, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, and a great opportunity for two actors to dive deep into the pain and longing behind a relationship. The play contains all the components--love, regret, bitterness, forgiveness, joy, and heartbreak--that human love provokes.
  • Stephen Kaplan:
    18 Nov. 2020
    A fascinating examination and imagining of Olivier and Leigh's final meeting. Crackling with witty repartee and devastating emotion, Hoke crafts her well-known subjects with humanity and shows a possible hidden side to them that beautifully completes their public personas. A great two-hander that actors can really sink their teeth into.
  • Samantha Marchant:
    23 Apr. 2020
    A well structured exploration of love, life and what we mean to one another. Hoke expertly weaves in facts about two movie legends as she keeps the story moving forward. Tender and a bit heartbreaking, this two-hander will appeal to fans of Viv and Larry and to those who just love love.
  • Rachael Carnes:
    15 Feb. 2020
    Two Hollywood icons come into crystal clear focus, in Hoke's imagining of their last time together. For fans of Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, the play will shed insight on their tumultuous personal and incandescent public lives. And for readers or audience who might not know their work, there's this incredible relationship, to explore. Hoke draws these two together through humor and human moments, culminating in a slice of creative and cultural history that feels fresh and contemporary.
  • Claudia Haas:
    12 Feb. 2020
    “Your charms are timeless” and so the charms of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh are in this love note to them. I devoured this as I devoured their films as a teen. In this imagining, Olivier is sick and Leigh is dying. Time does not take away from their wit or their poignant memories of their fractured life together. It’s a love story for the ages and a valentine to theatre.
  • Doug DeVita:
    10 Feb. 2020
    Hoke's imagining of a final meeting between tempestuous stage and film stars (and former husband and wife) Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier is a glittering and utterly savage look at what might have been; the zingers fly, the emotions are high, and underneath is the anguish of two people whose fierce love was the undoing of them both. Fascinating and heartbreaking, right up to the kicker ending.
  • Matthew Weaver:
    31 Jan. 2020
    A Hoke play is always something to treasure. Here she offers an intimate, fascinating look at the love story between two of cinema's all-time greats, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Hoke seamlessly blurs facts galore with an imagining of how that farewell might've, could have, gone. Sure, these are famous faces who've never quite found peace with their celebrity. But they could easily be ANY love story that's not quite over yet. These would be dream roles for any performers, starmakers for the untested or a well-earned challenge for familiar faces looking for meaty roles in which to excel.