←Recommendations of Daisy Violet the Bitch Beast King

The delightfully whimsical mess and chaos and violence and pain present within this play is infectious. Every shocking act that occurs feels so honest and real that it might be easy to forget how wild they are, except Collier doesn't let us forget. The way the young main characters interact with the space around them and exist as the fullest, angriest, most unhinged versions of themselves despite the Adult's attempts to stop them are so true of childhood... until they themselves become the Adults. A pure feast of images and ideas.

I love Daisy Violet the Bitch Beast King. This play, to me, is about repression, rebellion, agency, and trauma. I found it darkly hilarious and quite moving.

Takes a bite right out of you and doesn't stop until it's done digesting. A delightful and brutal meditation on womanhood, hunger and grief.

I absolutely love how physically messy this script is - starting with the wonderful stage directions describing the girls' dresses and the dirt from the plants and ending with the art installation. The dialogue flows with ease and the scenes fall nicely into the next. Weird and well crafted. Highly recommend.

Fantastically funny and provoking play about growing up female.

A beautiful play that rides the line between reality and fantasy, allowing for imaginative design from any type of theatre maker. DAISY VIOLET takes a bite out of society's heart and spits it up as something fantastic.

Sam Collier writes about women and girls living outside the restrictions of society by transcending human limitations. In Daisy Violet, three sisters reject what society perversely prescribes as feminine morality by joyfully subverting what makes a hero and what makes a Bitch. Through absurdism, allegory, feminism, and meter, Collier celebrates the persistence of women and the optimism of children in an existentially ridiculous time. How does a girl take revenge on the world? What do we lose when we become adults? And in the real world can we survive, like Daisy and her sisters, through fury, imagination, camaraderie and joy?

A wonderfully weird play about women owning their voices with a final scene that really packs a punch.

I had the great pleasure of seeing this piece on its feet at the Ground and Field Festival (Davis, CA), and the journey it describes––from sorcery and vital female rage to an organic, integrated sacrament at its close––was wonderful to witness. What works on paper doesn't always fly in three dimensions, but DAISY VIOLET most certainly takes wing. If there is justice in the universe, this one will get more attention and additional productions. Plus, it's funny. What more can we ask for?

A proper, hot, feral, mess of wild girl power. I congratulate the playwright on "going there."