←Recommendations of Mirrors

  • Reinette LeJeune: Mirrors by Azure D Osborne-Lee
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    This play is absolutely beautiful; the language dances between natural and poetic speech, the characters are all perfectly entwined in each other's business like an actual Mississippi parish. Conflicts and desires ricochet off one another, slowly building to the shocking and heartbreaking truth of it all. Bird is human and she's a survivor and watching her build this relationship with the newly arrived Alma Jean is both heart-warming and heart-wrenching. I look forward to the day I get to experience this play in person!

    This play is absolutely beautiful; the language dances between natural and poetic speech, the characters are all perfectly entwined in each other's business like an actual Mississippi parish. Conflicts and desires ricochet off one another, slowly building to the shocking and heartbreaking truth of it all. Bird is human and she's a survivor and watching her build this relationship with the newly arrived Alma Jean is both heart-warming and heart-wrenching. I look forward to the day I get to experience this play in person!

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  • Nick Malakhow: Mirrors by Azure D Osborne-Lee
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    A well structured, nuanced, and human play with amazing roles for Black women. The language both has the everyday irregularities of natural speech as well as a beautiful lyricism. Revelations are doled out at a good pace with wise use of flashback and private conversation. I hope to see this onstage soon!

    A well structured, nuanced, and human play with amazing roles for Black women. The language both has the everyday irregularities of natural speech as well as a beautiful lyricism. Revelations are doled out at a good pace with wise use of flashback and private conversation. I hope to see this onstage soon!

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  • Jennifer Kranz: Mirrors by Azure D Osborne-Lee
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    I had the pleasure of working on this play before it's untimely shut down (after being chosen by the artistic team) at NYTW Next Door, due to COVID. (It was named as a Kilroy selection shortly thereafter). How often do we see plays about black, queer women in the American South? How often do we see plays that are this timely, necessary, and gorgeously written? It is as honest, brutal, and touching a work as they come. It deserves many more productions.

    I had the pleasure of working on this play before it's untimely shut down (after being chosen by the artistic team) at NYTW Next Door, due to COVID. (It was named as a Kilroy selection shortly thereafter). How often do we see plays about black, queer women in the American South? How often do we see plays that are this timely, necessary, and gorgeously written? It is as honest, brutal, and touching a work as they come. It deserves many more productions.

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  • Gina Femia: Mirrors by Azure D Osborne-Lee
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    A gorgeous play full of lyrical language and a lot of heart and humor.

    A gorgeous play full of lyrical language and a lot of heart and humor.

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  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Mirrors by Azure D Osborne-Lee
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    This beautiful play had me from the start with its language, the sense of a whole world, a community policing queer women, and the character of Bird Wilson whose strength and struggle adds enormous dimension to this drama about a young girl who loses her mother. How we deal with loss is explored in a very moving way.

    This beautiful play had me from the start with its language, the sense of a whole world, a community policing queer women, and the character of Bird Wilson whose strength and struggle adds enormous dimension to this drama about a young girl who loses her mother. How we deal with loss is explored in a very moving way.

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  • Debra Morris: Mirrors by Azure D Osborne-Lee
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    Mirrors is an incredibly moving and tender story of black queerness in the rural American south. At points both heart-breaking and funny, Osborne-Lee uses a gentle touch to craft an unforgettable story around the deep longing of grief, the tragedy of a vibrant life muted by the conventions of society, and of the struggle to live one's personal truth both out in the world and with those we love the most.

    Mirrors is an incredibly moving and tender story of black queerness in the rural American south. At points both heart-breaking and funny, Osborne-Lee uses a gentle touch to craft an unforgettable story around the deep longing of grief, the tragedy of a vibrant life muted by the conventions of society, and of the struggle to live one's personal truth both out in the world and with those we love the most.

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