←Recommendations of Lily White

The nature of social media has a funny way of unleashing the inner prejudices and biases that one secretly holds. Ready or not, it's time to sort through the wreckage after the crash. Well done.

A cringe-inducing, foot-in-mouth tweet catalyzes a catastrophic wedding weekend and a family's reevaluation of their relationships to one another, race, and intersectional identity. Lily feels at first charmingly oblivious but, as the story progresses, her ingrained presumptions and prejudices reveal themselves to be more than just harmless misunderstandings. The conversations in this play are honest and fascinating, and I appreciated how well-rendered all of the characters were. Zito paints here an ostensibly liberal white family that is forced into uncomfortably open conversations they weren't ready to have but so needed to--a microcosm of a certain white American experience.

Watched this performed as a staged reading with the Ignition Arts Reading Series at the Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma in January 2019. Zito crafts a modern worst-nightmare situation that viscerally unfolds like a car crash in slow motion before your eyes. It all escalates as the initially likeable protagonist digs in her heels and digs her own grave, and makes you wonder what you'd do in a similar situation.

This play was a SEMIFINALIST for the 2019-2020 In-Progress New Play Reading Series at Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri. It is our pleasure to support TWEET.

A cringe-worthy piece that kept me on the edge of my seat. With smart use of projection, complicated arguments and clear dynamic conflict - this piece will leave an audience with something to debate and think about. A 140-character eulogy for an entire life. I'm still cringing-- in the best possible way!