←Recommendations of EIGHT NIGHTS

EIGHT NIGHTS is a masterpiece of storytelling, a layered, character-driven saga that uses the story of one refugee's journey to illuminate our desperate need to learn from history instead of dooming ourselves to repeat it over and over again. Lyrical, poignant, moving, and frightening, EIGHT NIGHTS is a can't miss.

I am kvelling - how I wish I wrote this play! What a glorious piece of work! The structure is magnificent! The light over darkness! The characters, the doubling, the transitions, the set, the food, the language, the silences, the story, the every inch of this play, how Maisel brings us right up to this very moment and hands us this beautiful play - thank you for this play - may it be seen and heard and loved by many!

In it's skilled crafting, EIGHT NIGHTS seamlessly weaves tradition and theatricality in a warm blanket of storytelling, allowing the audience to share with their own family the necessary preservation of the past, while staying in the ever present idea of living and surviving. This play begs you to bring your family to the theatre.

In it's skilled crafting, EIGHT NIGHTS seamlessly weaves tradition and theatricality in a warm blanket of storytelling, allowing the audience to share with their own family the necessary preservation of the past, while staying in the ever present idea of living and surviving. This play begs you to bring your family to the theatre.

How does one's trauma get passed down through generations even when actively guarded against such a thing? Similarly, how does resilience born of trauma get handed down subconsciously? Is it possible to move forward without ever looking back? These are the questions that Maisel asks in her stunning play, Eight Nights. This play is brilliantly constructed, effortlessly engaging (thanks to Maisel's wonderful character work and poetry,) and heart-wrenchingly beautiful. Timely. Yes. So timely. World premiere this beauty now.

This is a testament to redemptive storytelling and the rich tapestry of refugee stories that dwell within their inhabitants and the homes that surround us. A haunted teenage refugee from Germany evolves during eight nights of Chanukah experienced over the next 70 years. Despite the successive traumas revealed each night, the play shares from unlikely friends and ghosts alike a hopeful message about how history need not simply repeat and we each have the potential to show empathy toward those marginalized and threatened around us. In the spirit of Chanukah, the play affirms the power of light over darkness.

This is one of the best new plays I have come across in years. It is powerful and emotional, the writing is poetic, and the story is vital and important. I hope to see this play all over the American theatre in 2018.