←Recommendations of EGYPTIAN SONG

An emotional and moving journey that goes right to your heart and breaks it. Excellent.

This play was a FINALIST for the 2017-2018 In-Progress New Play Reading Series at Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri. It is our pleasure to support EGYPTIAN SONG.

We are pleased to support this play! It was a Finalist for the 2017 New Works Festival at Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas, Texas.

It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend James Christy and their play EGYPTIAN SONG as a finalist for our 2016 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one of 54 finalists out of more than 1,450 submissions, the strength of its writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process. Our readers especially appreciated the way the siblings' relationship developed over the play and how the play's intimate theatricality enriched that relationship.

We often need plays that take us back to an earlier historical moment to understand the complex contemporary political and cultural violence. Christy crafts a delicate journey where brother turns against sister. Zahia's journey is one of those prime roles where the audience goes on a full ride of emotions and empathy. Saw the extremely moving reading at Great Plains Theatre Conference, hope this one has a future production life soon.

A powerful, significant play examining, among other things, straight male terror of fully empowered women. Chilling and funny and serious and frankly amazing.

Absolutely gorgeous. This play is emotionally challenging in the best way possible.

This is a beautiful, devastating play. I've read it multiple times and I've seen a couple of readings. It deserves a full production. It's a haunting, frightening piece of work.