←Recommendations of CHARM

  • Aly Kantor: CHARM by Kathleen Cahill
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    My obsession with the Peabody family has meant this cast of transcendentalists has long been vibrant in my mind, but this play, so rich with theatrical imagination, has brought them to life for me in a new, vital way! Full of wit, historical richness, and well-utilized anachronism, it couldn't be more engaging or accessible. As a (mostly) historical play, I knew where it was headed, but the journey there was language-rich and ripe with delicious foreshadowing. Familiar, surprising, and lovely!

    My obsession with the Peabody family has meant this cast of transcendentalists has long been vibrant in my mind, but this play, so rich with theatrical imagination, has brought them to life for me in a new, vital way! Full of wit, historical richness, and well-utilized anachronism, it couldn't be more engaging or accessible. As a (mostly) historical play, I knew where it was headed, but the journey there was language-rich and ripe with delicious foreshadowing. Familiar, surprising, and lovely!

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  • Cheryl Bear: CHARM by Kathleen Cahill
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    A rich and fascinating story featuring the great literary figures we love in fine form. Well done.

    A rich and fascinating story featuring the great literary figures we love in fine form. Well done.

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  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: CHARM by Kathleen Cahill
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    What a marvelous creation! I love this play! It is gloriously well-written, hilarious, with such style and grace and smarts and theatricality! Love love love this magnificent story of lust and curiosity and desire and sex and love and the Transcendentalists and the 19th Century and so this very minute and forever - a play for the ages. It's also a brilliantly delightful feminist interpretation of the past with strong roles for women, huzzah!

    What a marvelous creation! I love this play! It is gloriously well-written, hilarious, with such style and grace and smarts and theatricality! Love love love this magnificent story of lust and curiosity and desire and sex and love and the Transcendentalists and the 19th Century and so this very minute and forever - a play for the ages. It's also a brilliantly delightful feminist interpretation of the past with strong roles for women, huzzah!

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  • Patrick Flick: CHARM by Kathleen Cahill
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    I directed this play at Orlando Shakespeare a few years back. I still think of this play on a regular basis as one of the finest plays I ever had the good fortune to encounter in my professional life. Kathleen tackles the story of Margaret Fuller and the Transcendentalists with humor, wit, scholarship and irreverence. A surprising and remarkable play that will inspire you and take your breath away.

    I directed this play at Orlando Shakespeare a few years back. I still think of this play on a regular basis as one of the finest plays I ever had the good fortune to encounter in my professional life. Kathleen tackles the story of Margaret Fuller and the Transcendentalists with humor, wit, scholarship and irreverence. A surprising and remarkable play that will inspire you and take your breath away.

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