←Recommendations of Well-Intentioned White People

Very glad I picked this up today. Lynett is a master of tempo. Wonderfully written dialogue that leaves you with a lot to think about. Very effective, crisp, and hilarious. This piece begs to be performed in every kind of space.

I really loved this play! It's so satisfyingly cringey. This is a play that is all too familiar to any non-white person and unfortunately so relevant yet gratefully funny, concise and effective.

A powerful look at the call for social change and how we could better support those who are actually affected by racism. Well done.

Wow! This play is full of so much! In a world full of "well-intentioned" memes and marches, we see the emotional labor Cass is put through on a matter she doesn't need to be put through. Not to make everyone else feel better about what happened to her. This play is so elegantly crafted with realistic situations and dialogue. Theatres take note! But also take note of this very important line: "You can’t keep demanding “to help”, Mara. Learn how to ask." It's likely time many of us learn to listen more and ask before we act.

I love this play, especially in this moment. It's so smart and so funny, and helps make the scope of the problem clear to the well-intentioned white people who might be reading or sitting in the audience.

Lynett has an exceptional talent for creating complex and deep characters, putting them in intense situations, and making everyone laugh until they cry. This play made me look at my life and my choices and think about how I have absolutely not listened and not given space to humans who actually need it. I can/should do better. Making an audience realize that, while giving room to laugh, is this play's greatest strength. It's okay to make your audience uncomfortable. This play should be done across the country. Read this play! And more of Rachel Lynett's work. AND PRODUCE HER!

A funny, pointed, well-crafted story about looking for racial justice in all the wrong places. Produce this play!

This is a truly excellent, insightful play with some amazing, cringe-inducing (in the best possible way) moments. Cass is a compelling protagonist who is easy to root for the entire time. While each of the "well-intentioned white people" populating this piece say and do things that make you squirm, they are absolutely believable as humans with misguided yet credible motivations. I read this quickly in one sitting and feel that, no doubt, this would be a fast-paced, funny, and potent night of theater on its feet. Its humor is disarming and helps the truths read and cut more sharply.

A play that captures the challenges of a "post-racial" society. Rachel has envisioned a world where the micro-aggressions her protagonist face cut deeper than the very real racially-motivated acts she is subjected to. The playwright does not offer an easy salve to the masses but has created a moving piece that should ask all of us to wake up and aspire to do more

This play does a wonderful job at re-centering the movements for social change back to the people these movements are actually supposed to be about. It calls out our white apologetic liberal friends for their unhelpful habits and shows the consequences those habits has on the marginalized people.