←Recommendations of KODACHROME

Beautiful vignettes and snapshots about love, loss, nostalgia, and community.

This is a subtle and moving work about the importance of holding on and letting go. I am interested in returning to this play every so often as I age; it's a touchstone there to remind me what is truly important in life.

A beautiful play that highlights the mundane and shows how little moments create huge ones, and yet, Szymkowicz chooses to focus on the mundane to showcase how beautiful tiny moments can be in one’s life. The Photographer as a main character telling us the story of the town and the people that live in it was a great choice too! Wholeheartedly recommend.

Masterful. Szymkowicz has crafted beautiful vignettes about love, longing, loss, and the inability to communicate these emotions. The dialogue and characters are everyday, but our guide -- the Photographer -- pulls them into sharper, detailed focus so the audience understands them better. This play is heartfelt and humane.

This is a gorgeous play. I hope to see it produced in NYC someday soon.

Thoroughly enjoyed this beautiful story of the inhabitants of an American town, not unlike Our Town in its simplicity and clarity of emotional arcs that take an ensemble through longing, love, and loss to a peaceful denouement that is as uplifting as it is complete.

Charmingly old-timey and nostalgic, but new. Full of warmth and heart. Wistful and honest. Saw a preview performance at PCS and just read it now. Excellent.

I had the opportunity to see this play's world premiere at Portland Center Stage. With humor and grace, Szymkowicz takes a gentle approach to developing out deeper themes of love and loss and longing, in this character-driven ensemble work. It's an accessible piece, centering on a friendly narrator who drops us in on the lives of likable townsfolk. We'll be seeing more of this play soon.

The portrait of a town becomes the portrait of the portraitist in this poignant and joyful and exquisitely designed one-act. A deceptively simple exploration of romance in many forms, but layered with true emotional complexity. Lovely, lovely, lovely.

There is an undercurrent of longing that permeates this play. It drew me in immediately and I couldn't leave. It has some elements of Under Milkwood - knowing what the characters say and then knowing their thoughts. And when there was silence, it spoke volumes. Love-lost, new-as-spring-love, fractured-love, wishful love, terrified-love, forever-love are so poignantly explored, audiences will relate, care and be moved. It's a beautiful ensemble piece.