Will an agoraphobic couple remain stuck while everyone else moves on or will stepping outside of the boundaries give them a new lease on life? A wife has had enough compromise and it turns out that may be just what the doctor ordered. Well done.

It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Jodi Rothe and their play Agora as a finalist for our 2017 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one of 55 finalists out of more than 1,300 submissions, the strength of its writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process. Our readers were struck by the imaginative setup of this play and its depiction of realistic family dynamics.