←Recommendations of A Life Enriching Community

With a pitch-perfect balance of snark and sentiment, A LIFE ENRICHING COMMUNITY’s retirees pop off the page. It’s remarkable how naturally Middleton Williams is able to convey decades of romantic history in this brief interlude as the couple transitions into their shared life’s final chapter. This funny, tender 10-minute play would be an excellent showcase for two older actors and a welcome addition to any festival.

I had the privilege of seeing this show as a part of More Real Life Stories festival in Newburyport, MA. The honesty in this show is profound, the love and understanding touching, and the message is clear. It's funny in all the right places with an underlying seriousness that adds a realism to the couple. This show does what all great 10-minutes do, it bring you in fast, holds you in rapt attention, and leaves you wanting for more. So well done.

It's always so refreshing to see a relationship not commonly represented on stage - in the case here, an elderly gay couple. Williams shows us the deep contours of their rich life together in this short play.

The power of this play is in the understated way in which the couple's mutual love is shown. With a light touch, it resonates deeper. The journey is about finding home, and also rediscovering the home that is always there but was forgotten and then remembered again. Williams vividly shows us those specific aches and joys. Delicate and beautiful work.

PHILIP MIDDLETON WILLIAM’s play, “A Life Enriching Community”, was recently performed in City Theatre National Reading Series #3. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it performed. The play is so rich with the beautiful strong emotional connections we form with our life partner. As we enter the final ‘act’ of our lives, it is so important to find the right place to share the rest of your lives together. Memories, old and new, are kept not only in our mind but are also felt in our heart and somewhere in our soul. This is a must-read, must-see play!

A beautiful play about change, end of life and the love story of two people who are growing old together. A finalist in City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting 2020, The theme is universal, moving and heartbreaking.

Wonderfully drawn older characters with distinctive voices! A LIFE ENRICHING COMMUNITY artfully delivers a clear, distinctive message that in all human experience, regardless of sexual orientation, love is love! Beautiful!

Philip Middleton Williams' A LIFE ENRICHING COMMUNITY is a play we rarely see - with an older gay couple - but a story that is universal. It is the humanity of this play that will draw you in to this couple's embrace and make you care. Beautiful work.

This play is every long-term relationship, be they gay or straight or whatever, whenever big life decisions must be made... and it is beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.

Sweet, tender, and charming, a play that rolls along on the strength of the two characters' obvious affection for each other and the steady stream of revelations that fill out the themes of the piece. About a gay couple, but really just about any two lovers facing the highs and lows of growing older together.