←Recommendations of What To Do When You're Suicidal But You Can't Fight Fascists When You're Dead

  • Renee Calarco: What To Do When You're Suicidal But You Can't Fight Fascists When You're Dead by Natalie Valentine
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    Gorgeous, urgent, raw, and essential. This piece is a journey full of pain *and* hope—-and I look forward to seeing this in production. Beautiful.

    Gorgeous, urgent, raw, and essential. This piece is a journey full of pain *and* hope—-and I look forward to seeing this in production. Beautiful.

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  • Lee R. Lawing: What To Do When You're Suicidal But You Can't Fight Fascists When You're Dead by Natalie Valentine
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    Wow! And then triple that. This play is so powerful. So raw and real and just speaks to how many people feel in the world right now. The people who don't understand the the realness of disenfranchisement should have this play tattooed on their souls if they can find them. What a beautiful piece of writing that just carries into a song of hope for us all. I want to jump into your river of tears. I want to swim with you to the new and promised land!

    Wow! And then triple that. This play is so powerful. So raw and real and just speaks to how many people feel in the world right now. The people who don't understand the the realness of disenfranchisement should have this play tattooed on their souls if they can find them. What a beautiful piece of writing that just carries into a song of hope for us all. I want to jump into your river of tears. I want to swim with you to the new and promised land!

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  • Shea King: What To Do When You're Suicidal But You Can't Fight Fascists When You're Dead by Natalie Valentine
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    To put the anguish, rage, hopes, and anxiety of a minority nation into an eight page play is remarkable. It is painful to read but feels purifying to have read. Now I need to experience it through the connection of performance.

    To put the anguish, rage, hopes, and anxiety of a minority nation into an eight page play is remarkable. It is painful to read but feels purifying to have read. Now I need to experience it through the connection of performance.

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  • Asher Wyndham: What To Do When You're Suicidal But You Can't Fight Fascists When You're Dead by Natalie Valentine
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    This. This monologue speaks to many of us -- the marginalized, the disenfranchised, the disenchanted, the abused, the neglected, those living in fear of the future in Trump's America. This slam poetry as a solo spectacle or a multi-character play crossed between a choreopoem and Kane's 4.48 Psychosis is a must-read, it must be produced -- it does more that bring to the stage the depressed and dispirited state of minority classes and groups -- it inspires home and change through tough love -- and words that slam against our ignorance and passivity, forcing us to start the revolution now.

    This. This monologue speaks to many of us -- the marginalized, the disenfranchised, the disenchanted, the abused, the neglected, those living in fear of the future in Trump's America. This slam poetry as a solo spectacle or a multi-character play crossed between a choreopoem and Kane's 4.48 Psychosis is a must-read, it must be produced -- it does more that bring to the stage the depressed and dispirited state of minority classes and groups -- it inspires home and change through tough love -- and words that slam against our ignorance and passivity, forcing us to start the revolution now.

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  • Ricardo Soltero-Brown: What To Do When You're Suicidal But You Can't Fight Fascists When You're Dead by Natalie Valentine
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    One of the most accomplished, accessible purges I’ve read; clearly and purely putting into words, dramatic and poetic, the pain and anxiety many feel about the current state of events. It is a shame that not everyone feels, or fights, this fear. The dependency on technology, the desperation for common ground, if not commonality, or shared perspective. This play reaches the fever of our times, the dense-ness or dense mess of manic depression, of a living, systematic, cyclical insanity. It is a reaction to hate that never should have been, but here we are. Add Valentine to your poets.

    One of the most accomplished, accessible purges I’ve read; clearly and purely putting into words, dramatic and poetic, the pain and anxiety many feel about the current state of events. It is a shame that not everyone feels, or fights, this fear. The dependency on technology, the desperation for common ground, if not commonality, or shared perspective. This play reaches the fever of our times, the dense-ness or dense mess of manic depression, of a living, systematic, cyclical insanity. It is a reaction to hate that never should have been, but here we are. Add Valentine to your poets.

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