←Recommendations of The New Galileos

A play about science and what’s in between those “black and white” choices. Each woman is given an impossible choice in an impossible situation and it’s fascinating to watch how each handles herself. Their relationships outside seep in in interesting ways. High stakes!

This play asks: do those in charge have the peoples' best interests in mind? What will it take to make the good ones stop fighting for what's right? Can anyone really take one's livelihood, free speech, & knowledge away? Berryman is surgical in her undertaking of very big issues & showcasing the individual, valuable lives, dreams, & fears involved in keeping truth alive. A heartfelt, harrowing, excellent play!

A powerful play that forces us to confront climate change and the call to fight the silence. Well done.

This is a smart and urgent play that brings a lot of different scientific fields into focus in the fraught conversation surrounding climate change and the lengths to which some will go to ignore the pressing truth. Unthinkable decisions are asked of the characters and, by extension, each of us.

My heart was in my throat reading this. Amy has written a play with the highest of stakes-there are no easy choices, and this play is eerily plausible. We get to know the 3 imprisoned women well through flashbacks, and it makes the ending all the more harrowing. A very important play for this time.

A rallying cry, a funeral for integrity, and an image of a future already happening. This parable of scientific crises and the way those who seek truth are muzzled by those in power reverberates with the power and resonance of a prophecy. Berryman's script is relentless and vicious in its ideas. This play is engineered with a diamond cutter's precision to be as devastating, well-expressed, and sincere as humanly possible.

Devastating and powerful and not so much science fiction as a warning about how close the edge we are, and how destructive of science and the environment our autocratic government has already become. The roles are compelling and, like the structure, complex and rewarding. An important play.

How far are we from the day when what is happening in this play is a reality? Is that reality now in ways? Berryman has brilliantly taken a pressing issue that faces our world and crafted a thrilling drama about courage and the importance of speaking truth to power. These are the plays we need today. This is the art that will be the cries of anguish and signals of hope in the dark times we are facing.

I think this is one of the few plays that had me at the edge of my seat, where I gasped out loud, and this was just a reading that I saw mind you. Amy wrote such a timely, political thriller. She makes me think and strikes fear in my heart. I'm not only afraid for these three characters that are written so eloquently, but I'm afraid because Berryman really creates a not too distant future that feels almost inevitable.

So many great things are explored in this piece - women in STEM, complex and current issues, and a killer open ending included. I'd like to think that this is dystopian, but it's also incredibly reminiscent of US-sponsored "disappearances" in Argentina and Chile, adding layers of complexity to an already layered and remarkably theatrical piece. Read it, produce it, and listen on The Parsnip Ship!