←Recommendations of Life Lines

  • Iyna Caruso: Life Lines by Donna Hoke
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    The challenge with reading Donna Hoke’s Life Lines is that you want to jump ahead because you can’t wait to see how the story unfolds. Should a mother read her dead son’s journal? “All I have to do is open the book and you are right here.” What an impossible choice. Who couldn’t relate to wanting to discover every last knowable moment of a late loved one’s life? I missed seeing this play performed but grateful to have had the chance to read it.

    The challenge with reading Donna Hoke’s Life Lines is that you want to jump ahead because you can’t wait to see how the story unfolds. Should a mother read her dead son’s journal? “All I have to do is open the book and you are right here.” What an impossible choice. Who couldn’t relate to wanting to discover every last knowable moment of a late loved one’s life? I missed seeing this play performed but grateful to have had the chance to read it.

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  • Cheryl Bear: Life Lines by Donna Hoke
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    A powerful piece on grief and the enormous need to absorb any small part of those we lost, but in love we honor their memory. Beautiful work.

    A powerful piece on grief and the enormous need to absorb any small part of those we lost, but in love we honor their memory. Beautiful work.

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  • Monica Cross: Life Lines by Donna Hoke
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    An immensely powerful 10-minute play! LIFE LINES immediately sets the stage as grieving parents receive a box of their late son's belongings. Donna Hoke so perfectly weaves the pain and loss through each line of dialogue. Wonderfully written! I would love to see this performed!

    An immensely powerful 10-minute play! LIFE LINES immediately sets the stage as grieving parents receive a box of their late son's belongings. Donna Hoke so perfectly weaves the pain and loss through each line of dialogue. Wonderfully written! I would love to see this performed!

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  • Elana Gartner: Life Lines by Donna Hoke
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    A truly heartbreaking play as the audience watches the mother struggle with her conscience and her desire to hear her son's voice again, even if it's private. Donna does an excellent job of making the pain real and deep.

    A truly heartbreaking play as the audience watches the mother struggle with her conscience and her desire to hear her son's voice again, even if it's private. Donna does an excellent job of making the pain real and deep.

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  • Asher Wyndham: Life Lines by Donna Hoke
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    The play Life Lines addresses something universal about the mourning process: the mourner's searching for answers through the love one's belongings. What is special about this play is how the writer handles the mental process of the mother and theatricalizes that -- externalizing what is internal and making that relatable. Painful and intimate scenario. I can definitely relate to the mother and I'm not a mother. A great play for competition. Bravo.

    The play Life Lines addresses something universal about the mourning process: the mourner's searching for answers through the love one's belongings. What is special about this play is how the writer handles the mental process of the mother and theatricalizes that -- externalizing what is internal and making that relatable. Painful and intimate scenario. I can definitely relate to the mother and I'm not a mother. A great play for competition. Bravo.

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