←Recommendations of Making Some Noise

These three sisters have a family tree deeply scarred with immense tragedy. It almost feels a part of their DNA. But this beautiful play is letting them finally acknowledge the scars and still allow themselves to grow new branches, without guilt over finding joy. So beautiful. Like a sad song that lets you release all the tension you've built up over time and open the floodgates to happiness in the future.

Three sisters gather annually to memorialize their mother, who was a 9/11 victim. Their rituals, lingering grief, and anxiety over future terrorist attacks and rising antisemitism create a palpable tension among them. Claudia Haas brilliantly captures the various stages these sisters find themselves in, from being stuck in the past to making a clean break. Their journey to understand each other and deal with their loss is captivating. Beautifully done.

A truly spectacular portrait of grief that is so heartfelt as it breaks and moves you beautifully. Excellent.

Claudia Haas' play, MAKING SOME NOISE, is a heartfelt play with many layers. Almost musical, it struck me as a piece with three variations -- each dealing with tragedies and grief. How do we deal with our grief? Everyone is different in this play, just as everyone is different in life. What I particularly liked were the age differences of the three sisters involved, their different relationships with their mother and their relationships to history, too. Well done, Haas.

This play has so much heart: an exploration of grief, guilt, and sisterhood that just sings. It has so many layers! Haas skillfully weaves in remembrance of past tragedies with today's dangerous anti-semitic attacks, all the while focusing on three characters struggling to deal with loss. Perceptive and moving.

A poignant play to read anytime, but on 9/10? A story heartbreaking in its candor yet humanely compassionate in its telling: Haas explores the grief that clings to three sisters, who lost their mother in the events of 9/11, and in doing, taps into the universalities of love and remembrance. How can I move forward, if to do so, means letting go of someone I care about? There's such beautiful relationships interwoven in these three women's lives. A play about memory, and life, and moving forward.

Haas has done it again. Three sisters, as similar as they are unique, gather together to stay in place for another year. Each character is lovingly and beautifully fully fleshed out--and their mother is a living entity, weaving around the sisters and speaking through them. This play is not a grim dwelling on the tragedy of 9/11, it is a celebration of life and how time continues to spin forward. Haas has made a beautiful noise with this play and as always shines a beautiful light in the darkest of places.

A tender and insightful portrait of a family's grief and how they cope. Haas' three characters are fully and compellingly realized and their occasionally hostile sisterly interchanges are pure gold. True mastery in psychology and family dynamics at work in this play, as well as a great lesson in moving on and letting go.

A trio of sisters whose mother perished in one of the towers. Each copes with the trauma of their mother's death in different ways; fetishization, obsession, denial. The question on the table is how long must we grieve? What is appropriate? Spending time with these women, even as they wrestle with the point of their self-made holiday, I was happy for them because whatever disagreements these unique and engaging characters might have, this day has continued to bring them together under one roof. Haas creates a touching, witty and memorable drama of ritual, remembrance, and acceptance.