←Recommendations of three girls never learnt the way home

A haunting piece with a parable-like quality to it, while still centering exquisitely specific and human characters. Spare poetry and lyricism co-exist here with beautifully captured and inelegant rhythms of natural speech. I loved the way Olmos created an entire world, socio-cultural and socio-economic rules and background and context, while zeroing in on just four characters. It makes for an original and theatrical piece that I'd love to see realized onstage!

One of many things that impressed me about this play is how it lives so easily in both a very grounded reality and in a metaphorical space where connection and division play out in mythic ways. Through only four characters, the writer manages to create a whole world of interaction and conflict without ever losing the three young women at the center. The journey is harrowing and beautiful and the piece leaves us with no easy answers to the many lingering questions.

A powerful story of opportunity and the trappings of systems that oppress. Well done.

A haunting play about who is seen and who is not seen in this world, and whose stories get told and why, and what happens to three high school girls caught in, but struggling to break free of systems outside their control."

This play is brilliant and beautiful - Olmos uses images and poetry to craft a subtly powerful play that captures real issues of systemic racism and the U.S. education system and weaves them into a story about three distinct and complex women. The play left me with a thousand questions in the best way possible.

Gorgeous, mysterious play about integration, education and femininity. Olmos' language is uniquely poetic, and the roles he writes for women are complex .