←Recommendations of Blue

The poetry imbued in this dialogue lifted me off the ground without my knowing, and by the end, I was still soaring. BLUE has a stunning simplicity to it that just cannot be replicated - it is wholly unique and truly breathtaking. Hageman's play may be short, but its wingspan is enormous. Do yourself a favor and fly with these characters.

Blue is about memory and brokenness. How we create our past to fit our hearts. As I read the play I could feel the tension and emotion rising. I love when theater makes me feel strongly, like Blue does. Beautifully human.

There’s so much packed into this tight little story: joy, pride, disillusionment, forgiveness, guilt, grief, wisdom, and grace, all told so briskly and with such theatrical verve. Nicely done.

I want to write the same thing another reviewer has already written. Wow. Just wow. This play really got to me. It's so well-done -- poetic and poignant and so true. Read it.

Wow. Just... wow.

It’s been said: never meet your heroes... they’ll always disappoint. But what can you do if your hero happens to be a member of your own family? Hageman’s exquisite play “Blue” shows the inescapable truth behind the saying, yet how a young woman won’t allow her journey through time and revelation to tarnish the memory she holds so dear. This is a beautiful piece of writing.

Absolutely stunning. Celestial and cellular — A play that dances across time and space, drawing our hearts and minds on such a gentle, elegant journey. To say that Hageman's lyrical poetry shines would be a huge understatement. This is language at once lyrical and full of emotion, a piece of theatre unique to itself, yet ageless and beautiful. Brava!

If you're not reading Hageman's plays, if she's not on your radar, if you're not commissioning her, you're doing yourself a disservice. This play showcases her special approach to structure, spectacle and language. Constantly in awe.

Another beautiful and moving play from Hageman that investigates story and memory, tragedy and family and love. I keep saying it, but this is a playwright to watch.

At first Lilith is told to think of her grandpa as a hero. But as she grows older, she comes to recognize the depth of her grandfather's flaws and eventual suicide, as well as her grandmother's inability to hold on to the myth of her husband as an idealized figure. In this sweetly lyric and elegiac play about Lilith’s growth of perception, she decides ultimately to see both grandparents as worthy of admiration and compassion, and not to disparage the grandfather who killed himself out of guilt even though it meant not seeing not seeing his granddaughter grow up.