I ended this play with tears of anger in my eyes but in a good way (if that even makes sense!) Emma has created an incredibly powerful piece on many levels. While speaker is described as looking like girl, to me it felt like through the piece the girl was being talked 'about' rather than being able to tell her own story (this may not have been intentional) and that added to the power and darkness of the imagery described and witnessed as part of this story. Its a tremendously powerful piece that speaks volumes to our world, tragically!

Even when she buys the gun and we know full well her intention, we pray for circumstance to intervene, but of course it can't. The inevitability of what follows is as devastating as the world we're all responsible for perpetuating. We think we're not the soldiers "out for sex," but we don't undo them; we keep making more of them and punishing their victims.

No one.... and I mean NO ONE.... does poetically powerful and brilliantly evocative dialogue like Emma Goldman-Sherman. This play grabs you by the collar and doesn't let go: laying bare the way women become the enforcers of patriarchal power, the way access to safe and legal abortion is still (absurdly) something that is dependent on your geographic and socio-economic status, and the way we (even "good liberals") fail to stand up and fight for the most essential of human rights- bodily autonomy. There are no easy answers, but staying silent dooms us all. Thank you for this play.