←Recommendations of IN THE FOREST, SHE GREW FANGS

A darkly thrilling fairy tale capturing the hurt of being trapped as an outcast and what being a werewolf can do. Well done!

Did she ever!

Elegantly composed direct address, interrupted by bleak Mid-American reality and vivid memories, ratchet the tension while diminishing our ever-waning sense of safety. Here, it doesn't matter if you're the outcast, the jock, the hot new girl, or the Grandma; everybody carries wounds deeper than any werewolf could inflict with claws and teeth. In a way, it's about the repercussions of kissing and being kissed by the wrong person. How momentary lacerations leave permanent scars. Some move on. Others pass the pain forward.

Great roles!!! Eminently producable! Frightening, resonant and powerful.

A terrifyingly beautiful twist on the concept of fairytales - the Brothers Grimm would be proud! Every word takes you off the page and into the world Spotswood so intricately created. Had me hanging on the edge of my seat!

Bone-chilling and wonderfully dark, IN THE FOREST, SHE GREW FANGS bursts with theatricality and intimacy. Stephen Spotswood has taken the typical fairytale narrative and transmogrified it into a twisted, bloodthirsty, and thrilling tale filled with incredibly complex characters that will leave you wanting more, long after reading THE END. #PlaywrightPlug

It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Stephen Spotswood and their play In the Forest, She Grew Fangs as a finalist for our 2013 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one finalist out of hundreds of submissions, the strength of this play’s writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process.

Gorgeous language, and a smart, intense look at being an outcast in high school (but, really, an outcast on the margins of any highly structured society). This is one to read!

A haunting, poetic work that captures the very real hurt of being the outcast in high school. One of my favorites.

A poetic and creative re-imagining of the high-school horror trope. This play is a combination of kick-butt and stylized monologues and slightly more realistic scenes. It's a fantastic acting opportunity for women, and also presents fun challenges for directors and design teams--this play works well stripped down, but there is also great potential for physical theatre, movement, and design elements.

This is a play that I read a year ago and still think about all the time; it's a play that is at once fantastical and magical, and deeply relatable. The language is beautiful, and the structure is very theatrical, but at its core it is an exploration of evolving identity. I love this play.

In the Forest, She Grew Fangs is one of my favorite plays that we've presented in Lost Girl Theatre's Getting Lost Reading Series. It's lyrical, fantastical, deeply emotionally resonant, and one of my favorite fairytale retellings that I've come across.