←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.

I had the pleasure of watching this play evolve from the JAW festival, to full production at Portland Center Stage. While Szymkowicz’s plays often revolve around rich comedy, Kodachrome is a much more sensitive and gentle work. Through the clever dramatic device of a photographer, the small and quiet lives of Colchester flash before us, giving us brief glimpses into the endearing relationships. The play is bittersweet at times, humorous at others – But the punctuation of scenes by use of the photographer tie together this moments in a poignant whole. I walked out of the theater smiling.

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

Szymkowicz writes an “Our Town” for the 21st century. A humane, aching look at the dynamic of love that simultaneously demonstrates both is permanence and fragility. A great play for a large cast, such as a high school, college or community theater.

Reminiscent of Wilder's OUR TOWN and Eno's MIDDLETOWN, KODACHROME offers an emotional journey that deepens with each new interaction between the play's characters. I found myself reading passages repeatedly to make sure I excavated every nuance from the text. This is a stunning play, with specific and understated dialogue, on our memories and how they fail us, and how love is as confusing as it is thrilling. I could not have loved this play more and hope I am fortunate enough to see it production one day.

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.