←Recommendations of Storm Clouds for Lonely Hearts

An intimate and powerful connection is painted with an wonderfully delicate touch. Well done.

The compellingly disjointed, cinematic structure of this play will leave you thinking and wondering for hours that far exceed the brevity of the play itself. Hernandez has found something deeply powerful at the heart of the play's alternative realities.

What is remarkable about this writing is the world-building on a language of body and desire, sensuality and skin and breath between two girls. With evocative imagery as singular as anything by Erik Ehn (stage directions last a page long), and dialog that feels so spot-on even when it's awkward, this playwright shows a relationship in reverse -- and creates an unexpected spectacle of pure sexy joy! This is a dream come true for lighting, media and sound designers!

What a lovely and captivating mix of explosive lust, gentle hesitation and tender lyricism. And how refreshing to see a reverse chronology that doesn't begin in failure or bitterness or recrimination. We see quite unmistakable passion and then we see how that passion credibly developed. Hernandez certainly knows how to build both a fully engaging story and compelling characters.

Using rain as a central metaphor, the three short scenes of Hernandez's play seem to be told in reverse time-sequence: a night of incredible passion, a somewhat awkward first date, and a chance encounter on a bus. A beautiful small romantic play for the two women, one in which the author satisfies the reader with his compelling stage directions as much as the potential audience sitting in the theater.

It's remarkable that Hernandez has crafted a play here that dances and shimmers with beautiful language, that's also just so human, and so real. This play pulls us in cinematically, with bold, confident staging, while lending us the ability to drop in on incredibly vulnerable and intimate moments. This piece would challenge a creative team to explore potentials for physical and emotional performance. I'd love to see this work onstage.

A beautiful ode to love, longing and desire. It moves with such lyricism like a foreign film from a by-gone era and would play out so beautifully on the stage with the sounds of the rain. The three vignettes flow together perfectly and who could ever resist the line "I never want salad."

A beautiful new play from an exciting emerging playwright. He is one to watch!

What a beautiful and engaging short! I love both the characters, the depth achieved for both in a very brief time, and the flexibility in the order of the scenes. Normally for a short play I don’t love having separate scenes, but these are completely earned and needed. Would love to see this produced, especially with the rain.

Beautiful, lyrical piece with a fantastic structure. Hernandez writes his stage directions as poems, and his dialogue is about as real as it gets. This play is vivid and jumps right off the page. A really lovely read--and it would be pure joy to watch this performed. A gorgeous and sweet celebration of connection and love where we don't expect it.