←Recommendations of Naming True

NAMING TRUE is a beautiful story about two people from very different places and a distant connection in the past that brings them together. Christiana Clark and Rachel Crowl recorded it for us at play4keeps.org and it's a very powerful experience to hear them bring their characters to life. If you can make it through this play without getting choked up and shedding a few tears, better check to see if your heart's still beating. Natalie Symons' work here is poignant and compelling, with redemption found in even these bleakest of circumstances.

I saw a terrific production of this play at Urbanite in Sarasota. Was so impressed by the extent to which this playwright was able to voice two characters, each with a life-shaping awareness of their outsider status, their "otherness," at least on the terms by which society defines it. The situation was utterly convincing and very moving. Cut to a couple of years later, when I had the pleasure of hearing a reading of Symons's THE PEOPLE DOWNSTAIRS. Here is the rare writer who understands the difference between "loser" and "victim"--and who knows how to write character-driven comedy.

NAMING TRUE is a beautiful story about two people from very different places and a distant connection in the past that brings them together. Christiana Clark and Rachel Crowl recorded it for us at play4keeps.org and it's a very powerful experience to hear them bring their characters to life. If you can make it through this play without getting choked up and shedding a few tears, better check to see if your heart's still beating. Natalie Symons' work here is poignant and compelling, with redemption found in even these bleakest of circumstances.

I had the opportunity to see the world premiere of Naming True at Urbanite Theatre. The story is a heartbreaking and beautiful look at the way our stories live on beyond us. The dark comedy that is woven throughout it holds tension with the heavy subject matter and ultimately the show offers the hope of redemption.