←Recommendations of Apples in Winter

Absolutely staggering. This play is tragic and compassionate and expertly written. There is a punch in the gut waiting with every new revelation. A profound exploration of the ways we betray one another and the complex nature of love.

APPLES IN WINTER received an NNPN Rolling World Premiere. The partnering theaters were Riverside Theatre (Iowa City, IA), Centenary Stage (Hackettstown, NJ), and Phoenix Theatre (Indianapolis, IN).

I just saw a production of this play at the Urbanite Theatre in Sarasota, FL. This play is a powerful piece for female actors, 60+. The single character in the play, Miriam, grapples with the complexities of trying to reconcile unconditional motherly love with genuine fear of one's own child. The play's imaginative staging requirements (baking a pie on stage) immerses the audience in the horrific reality of the play. This piece is a great choice for intimate theatre venues!

A profound meditation on the fierceness and complexity of a mother's love for her child no matter what he did, told through the activity of baking an apple pie. This play is suspenseful, visceral and very powerful.

A gut punch of a play; riveting from the first sentence to the last. Haunting & memorable.

Jennifer Fawcett has created a beautiful solo piece that I am absolutely dying to see staged. There’s something so incredibly visceral about a knife attached to a table by aircraft cable – it’s dangerous but restricted, still usable but a shadow of its former self; this easily applies to her character as well. APPLES IN WINTER is a true treat that’s delightfully bittersweet. #PlaywrightPlug

I heard about this play some time ago, and now I'm upset I waited this long. Fawcett has created a powerful puzzle in her character, one that you have fun not just putting together but also taking it apart. Would love to see a production of this play soon.

This script is incredible. Miriam is a complex and complicated woman. The story is layered and unfolds powerfully. Audience response was powerful: they couldn't stop talking about this show. Produce this one. You won't be sorry.

As the sole character (ever seen on stage) in this play, Miriam, ponders and expounds fundamental and foundational connections between mothers and their children, it becomes clear what a wreck of nerves she really is. This woman's spirit has been wrung throughout, although it is not extinguished, so she recounts personal memories, cooking, gardening, rituals, and time, associating all she can, applying everything to the narrative, the circumstances, and - yes - baking, in order to find, elucidate, illuminate meaning, reason, and significance from her final testimony, this last effort as (character) witness. Herein lies astonishing beauty, pain, and empathy.

I cannot stop thinking about this script. So simple it's elegant, and amazing in its depth and compassion for its sole character. "My son asked me to make him an apple pie. So I'm going to make him one." Fawcett's masterpiece shows us a woman laying her aching heart bare for us. A tour de force.