←Recommendations of KINDERGARDEN

A terrific piece about the struggles of young girls and their understanding of sexual assault at that age. Well done.

They're five years old. Five. And what's not entirely understood of abuse at that age is how it comes across in the most normal conversations. Amid conversation you come to hear details of the lives of these five year olds that make you want to save them.

And yet that's not the most horrifying part. What's horrifying is that at this age, small people believe what happens to them is proper or deserved, perhaps even an act of love. The way they report their attacks is matter of fact as well as recreational. It's unfortunately true. Well Done.

I am in awe of how the writer depicts young girlhood here. How they explore the difference between normal and abnormal behavior is so compelling and heartbreaking.

This piece is a playful sucker punch, sharp-edged and raw, deeply compelling, and equally upsetting. Excellent writing on difficult subject matter.

A painful play that pulls no punches. Sharp, inventive, heartbreaking, infuriating, and stomach-churning; all within 10 minutes.

Very few writers can turn almost unbearable pain into art with the visceral gut-punching precision of Emma Goldman-Sherman, and her short play KINDERGARDEN is a stunning work; intense, harrowing, and haunting, it may be her masterpiece.

Daring and harrowing play about incest, written with Goldman-Sherman's customary theatricality, inventiveness, and intelligence. Gut-wrenching and impossible to stop thinking about.

'KINDERGARDEN' is a devastatingly frank discussion of sexual abuse made almost more unbearable in the casting of grown actors portraying five year olds who openly (sometimes blithely) discuss situations they can't understand but are scarring them deeply. Add to that the juxtaposition of a hyper-sexualized schoolyard choreography of Miley Cyrus's 'Wrecking Ball' and this piece will leave you gasping. An important, devastating piece.

Sharp and shocking, KINDERGARDEN is a darkly comic piece revolving around the sick reality of familial abuse. As uncomfortable as it may seem, we need more plays like this to be produced because we need more discussions on this topic to be had. Goldman-Sherman pierces right to the heart of this matter: abuse doesn't have to be normal in order for it to be common.

This play will wreck you. Makes you wonder about what kids talk about at playgrounds when they're not playing.