←Recommendations of Alabaster

I lack the ability to adequately describe the visceral affect it had on me. Suffice to say I Love It! You should read it. Audrey has a voice that should be heard. She will be a force in the theatre for years to come and the sooner you read her work, the earlier you will be able to say: "I knew of her back when.........."

At the heart of this funny, sexy, warm and poignant story is the transformation required to heal, the ways that art and love both teach us to turn our memories into something portable, so that we can survive letting go. ALABASTER lays this out with wit, style and a talking goat. I cannot wait for the chance to work on this beautiful piece.

I saw the NNPN Showcase reading of this play. It ripped my heart out and lifted me up and I am obsessed. This is the kind of heart-full work we need.

This play.... oh man. It is just so so good. I attended a reading of it and was unbelievably taken by its humor, heart, and humanity. This is a stunning play about art, vulnerability, and taking that first step toward healing wounds that seem as if they were destined to remain with us forever.

Such a gorgeous, gorgeous play! Audrey has full command of both the pain and joy of living and the language to express it through exquisitely wrought characters. Bravo!!

Scars of life. A talking goat! YES!!! This is theater at its best. Alice and June are wonderful, complicated humans. June is harsh and hilarious. Full of faults but they keep trying even as they push each other away. The story builds beautifully and was so incredibly moving. We need this hope: to see perseverance (and not the cheezy kind that makes one want to vomit), but awful and hard perseverance. The kind of hope one doesn't take pride in but hides in. Beautiful and theatrical. Women lifting up other women but not sentimental at all.

This writer is on fire. Just read THE GULF and ALABASTER and highly recommend them both. She brings the heat and hunger of passion on-stage in new, exciting ways. She beautifully balances the pathos and humor of the relationships so that you are engaged and moved, and left satisfied by the end.

Audrey's play is a beautiful character study. It has deep and flawed and human characters that keep you rapt for the duration. Florida Rep showcased this play in our 2018 PlayLab and have committed to the premiere in the fall of 2019. This is an important piece for so many reasons, but all the more because it is a vehicle for three women to really dig into characters too few and far between in the American Theatre. Humor, heart, love, loss, and even some magic realism. Do yourself a favor and read this play.

“I hate the world and I’m in it.” Cefaly creates such brilliant tableaux of pain and humor and longing, and ALABASTER is a beautiful example of that. A gorgeous examination of the scars we can see and the ones we can’t. And everything about Weezy is my favorite thing. Everyone should be reading/producing this play!

We are pleased to support this play! It was a Finalist for the 2017 New Works Festival at Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas, Texas.