←Recommendations of The Amen Trilogy

A thought provoking, explorative look at faith, pain, forgiveness, hope and love that stays with you. Well done.

Cassandra Rose's The Amen Trilogy strikes at the very heart of the theatrical experience. It weaves the personal and the divine effortlessly. Heartbreak, anger, forgiveness, lust, love, and pain in this play echo across time and space in this beautiful epic. Sorry for the repeated recommendation but my old email disappeared and I didn't want my recs to disappear.

Cassandra Rose's imagination is as vast as her heart is generous. This queer exploration of hope, truth, love, fate and will, god and the devil, and life and death will leave you overwhelmed by catharsis. Don't let the page count daunt you: this epic flies by and leaves the audience enriched, challenged, and awe-struck.

most clearly, you feel the room here. the size of the empty church, the scope of the biblical epics, the depths of death and care. rose taps into narrative as filling in space, allowing queer stories to not only find room in but become the religious canon. among the long forgotten and the lonely dying and living, rose shows how much these stories make the people and the people make the stories. highly recommend theatres be bold and enter this carefully crafted and love-filled world. a journey worth taking.

This is a powerhouse production. After attending a beautiful staged reading, I was left in awe of how captivating a script could be, despite what may appear to be a daunting run time. There were never moments when I disengaged. I was fascinated by how deftly the stories from the Bible were woven into a heartbreaking narrative about four friends dealing with grief and tragedy. The ending crushed me. I cannot recommend this play more highly, and Cassandra Rose specifically as a playwright.

A thought-provoking and challenging play, deep in resonance and powerful in its epic scope. Deserves to be on stage and soon.