←Recommendations of PRACTICE HOUSE

  • Alice Parman: PRACTICE HOUSE by Rachael Carnes
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    I have the honor to be Rachael's mother. Of course, I couldn't be prouder of my daughter's accomplishments. And I am so grateful for Rachael's creative spirit and the craft she brings to her plays. As a reader, I feel engaged and want to keep reading. As an audience member, I've been deeply moved and reduced to helpless laughter, often (but not always) in the same play. Bravo, Rachael! Looking forward to many more opportunities to experience staged readings and performances of your exceptional, growing body of work.

    I have the honor to be Rachael's mother. Of course, I couldn't be prouder of my daughter's accomplishments. And I am so grateful for Rachael's creative spirit and the craft she brings to her plays. As a reader, I feel engaged and want to keep reading. As an audience member, I've been deeply moved and reduced to helpless laughter, often (but not always) in the same play. Bravo, Rachael! Looking forward to many more opportunities to experience staged readings and performances of your exceptional, growing body of work.

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  • John Kelly: PRACTICE HOUSE by Rachael Carnes
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    A truly fine play - historic, yet speaking directly to our time. Innovative and insightful. Make no mistake, however, this is a most challenging script requiring insightful and inspired direction. Actors will find much to challenge them as well. Advanced groups and professionals should cherish the opportunity to work on Carnes' PRACTICE HOUSE.

    A truly fine play - historic, yet speaking directly to our time. Innovative and insightful. Make no mistake, however, this is a most challenging script requiring insightful and inspired direction. Actors will find much to challenge them as well. Advanced groups and professionals should cherish the opportunity to work on Carnes' PRACTICE HOUSE.

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  • Asher Wyndham: PRACTICE HOUSE by Rachael Carnes
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    Carnes is inventive and daring like Caryl Churchill. Although Carnes' PRACTICE HOUSE is not playing with characters from time periods (it's 1930s), the liveliness and rich language and distinct personalities clashing, as well as its feminist concerns, makes it as captivating as Churchill's Top Girls. There's no Household Manual for wives today (they're the opposite of these students of Home Economics); however, the social contract -- or expecations -- that young women follow hasn't change much since the 1930s. That's what's surprising about this play. Producers -- you better have Carnes on...

    Carnes is inventive and daring like Caryl Churchill. Although Carnes' PRACTICE HOUSE is not playing with characters from time periods (it's 1930s), the liveliness and rich language and distinct personalities clashing, as well as its feminist concerns, makes it as captivating as Churchill's Top Girls. There's no Household Manual for wives today (they're the opposite of these students of Home Economics); however, the social contract -- or expecations -- that young women follow hasn't change much since the 1930s. That's what's surprising about this play. Producers -- you better have Carnes on your radar. READ HER NOW! PRODUCE THIS!!!!!

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  • John Minigan: PRACTICE HOUSE by Rachael Carnes
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    A wild ride that begins with the energetic language of a play like Bald Soprano while confronting the way pop culture, advertising, and media blend with the "rules" by which women are expected to behave. These characters live in their school's and their society's "mock-up" of what their lives will be, and their mix of "how to toe the line" and the desire to rebel is real and resonant. It's very funny and then it's not--as we move from the 1930's to today, and the characters experience the legacy of those years as it plays out all around us.

    A wild ride that begins with the energetic language of a play like Bald Soprano while confronting the way pop culture, advertising, and media blend with the "rules" by which women are expected to behave. These characters live in their school's and their society's "mock-up" of what their lives will be, and their mix of "how to toe the line" and the desire to rebel is real and resonant. It's very funny and then it's not--as we move from the 1930's to today, and the characters experience the legacy of those years as it plays out all around us.

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  • Lee R. Lawing: PRACTICE HOUSE by Rachael Carnes
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    If ever a subject matter and playwright meshed up perfectly it's in this play "Practice House" by Rachael Carnes. When I saw that it was done and posted here I made it the required reading for this Sunday and what a perfect piece of theater. The humor and the zing of Carnes's trademark style is in full force with this wonderful piece and it would be an honor for any theater to stage this masterful look which revisits a bit of history but done so with Carnes' incredible insight and force. Recommended reading for everyone!!!

    If ever a subject matter and playwright meshed up perfectly it's in this play "Practice House" by Rachael Carnes. When I saw that it was done and posted here I made it the required reading for this Sunday and what a perfect piece of theater. The humor and the zing of Carnes's trademark style is in full force with this wonderful piece and it would be an honor for any theater to stage this masterful look which revisits a bit of history but done so with Carnes' incredible insight and force. Recommended reading for everyone!!!

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