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Aliquippa by Lydia Valentine

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  • Shaun Leisher:
    9 May. 2021
    “ I love the specificity of language and place that filled every page of this play. A very fitting play to be reading on Mother's Day. ”
  • Doug DeVita:
    17 Dec. 2020
    “ Sharp, incisive, and achingly beautiful, ALIQUIPPA is a work of art, rendered with intelligence, care, and passionate fire. Read it, produce it, love it: it's an important new work that demands to be performed. ”
  • Nick Malakhow:
    25 Jul. 2020
    “ An exquisitely rendered play that looks at the nuanced relationships between three generations of Black women in a single family. The interactions between Naomi, Mama Shirl, and Rachel are complex, illuminating, and indicative of the intricacies of intergenerational relationships and changing social values. The supporting characters are equally human. This piece contains warn, human humor as well as tragedy, and balances them extremely well. ”
  • Heather Meyer:
    18 Jul. 2020
    “ Lydia Valentine's ALIQUIPPA draws the reader/audience in with its riveting characters. In a world stacked against Black and African American people, this play is important and vital. It's beautiful, heartbreaking and admirable, please read this play and produce this play. ”
  • Chas Belov:
    3 May. 2020
    “ This is a well-drawn play. The characters are vivid and distinct from one another, full of inter-family conflict and full of love for one another. I did most of my growing up in southwest Pennsylvania, and this play has a very strong sense of place. It also has a very strong sense of time, our modern #BlackLivesMatter time. I was moved to tears at the end. Read it/stage it. ”
  • David Hansen:
    9 Apr. 2020
    “ With her play Aliquippa, Valentine has composed a painful and joyful family drama of tragedy and hope. Four generations of Lockwoods aspire to difficult dreams in a nation where the rules remain set against African Americans. The playwright neatly weaves issues of economics, chemical dependence, and raising non-heteronormative children, providing each of her characters the opportunity to have a voice, doing so with a great deal of warmth and familial humor. Highly recommended! ”