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I love, love, love this play. The characters are completely relatable and I identified/empathized with each of them at varying points of the play. If you are looking for an interesting, funny, sad, dark, touching play for four dyamic actors, look no further than Halcyon. An excellent text for scene study classes and colleges/universities.

An exquisite piece! It is full of everyday poetry--both beautifully natural speech and spare lyricism. I loved the use of distance and proximity to explore relationships, and just like her dialogue, Mohlman's staging combines high theatricality (with wonderful potential for movement and design) with really intimately and specifically drawn scenes. The nuanced queer identities on display here provide some much needed representation that I wholeheartedly appreciated and felt kinship with. The folding in of faith into these character's intersectional identities was impactful as well. I hope to see this piece onstage in the near future!

As a bisexual woman who has ended up with a male life partner, I have often found myself wondering about how my life would have been different if I made different choices in my love life. Watching Halcyon was like watching a play about a feeling that has no name. Mohlman's ability to let her characters, who are raw, wonderful, messed up humans, just exist without needing to explain or justify their existence is stunning. The whole thing is beautifully written, complex, and uncompromising. I highly recommend this play to everyone.

Even seen through a virtual lens, "Halcyon" cuts you to the core. Mohlman's superpower (beautifully displayed in this piece) is that she consistently creates characters and dialogue that feel intimately real. These characters are almost impossible not to identify with in some capacity, whether they're at their best - or worst. The journey of this play feels deeply important for the viewer, bringing up themes of intense (and at times uncontrollable) passion, hope, and connection. Reminding us that even the most specific experiences can be universal. Highly recommend for literally everyone.

What Danielle does so beautifully in her play "Halcyon" is elegantly craft a balanced and layered narrative of singular characters who flirt and joke and profess love and desire, and confront, admonish and break each other's hearts. I love how a simple truth from one of Danielle's characters seismically shifts the ground underneath another and suddenly this familiar terrain is all the harder to navigate. If we were one of Danielle's characters, at least by the end, there would be hope for us all.

"Halcyon", or, as I like to call it, "Bisexual Disaster: The Play" is an amazing work by Danielle Mohlman. It is a remarkably human piece that isn't afraid to go into the messy details of love, sex, and family. The characters are far from perfect, but they're so three-dimensional that you can't help but be in engaged in their emotional turmoil. As with all of Mohlman's works, her language is beyond reproach and so uniquely her own. The world and the people who reside in it truly feel alive. It'll make you laugh, break your heart, then give you hope.