←Recommendations of @thespeedofJake

A beautiful, moving play about the heart wrenching agony of grief and the gift of hope. Well done.

A taut, absolutely engrossing, and truthful drama about the open wound of grief and the power of hope. Maisel crafts concise and striking scenes that ramp up with thrilling emotional power, and which resolve with a precision characteristic of the finest playwriting. The last scene is the product of a great playwright swinging for the fences and hitting a home run into the parking lot.

What a beautiful, painful play this is. The pauses speak as eloquently as the language itself. It's not easy to write about grief without falling into clichés, but Maisel takes you into the center of it in new ways. Highly recommended.

Saw the production of this play recently and it grabbed me. The way that it shows grief just slowly eating away at one's spirit is incredible. But it also manages to be light in moments and shows how we somehow do misguided things in the midst of our pain. Yet our desire to put things back together again and make sense of tragedy is what heals us and makes us human. Love this play.

There is another popular play about the death of a child that has never felt real to me; it feels like a journalist has gathered facts and was unable to imbue them with any sense of truth about this specific grief. This play has done what that one could not; it is full of painful and heartbreaking truth, exquisitely expressed (Emily's monologue is PERFECT) and, in the end, like a Pandora's box of grief, a tiny shred of hope emerges.